New submission from Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com>:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#choices says "These can be handled by passing a container object as the choices keyword argument to add_argument()". I think this should be "iterable" instead. Internally, argparse reads the iterable and converts it to a list so that it can read it multiple times (among other reasons, I'm sure). One of the examples uses range(), which is not a container. "container" is also used in https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#the-add-argument-method Bonus points for fixing the docstring in argparse.py. I didn't check if anywhere else in that file needs to be fixed. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: newcomer friendly messages: 349234 nosy: docs@python, eric.smith priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: argparse uses "container object", should be "iterable" versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37793> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
