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11 Feb
2014
11 Feb
'14
4:28 p.m.
New submission from Thomas Guettler: I think the docs of argparse still contain confusing magic: parser.parse_args('7'.split()) You know what it does and I know it. But a lot of people new to Python, don't understand what this should be. Please use: parser.parse_args(['7']) Close this ticket, if you don't care for people new to Python. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 210950 nosy: docs@python, guettli priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: argparse docs: '7'.split() is confusing magic versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20598> _______________________________________