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import argparse help(argparse)

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Output: | add_subparsers(self, **kwargs) | # ================================== | # Optional/Positional adding methods | # ================================== | | convert_arg_line_to_args(self, arg_line) | | error(self, message) | error(message: string) | | Prints a usage message incorporating the message to stderr and | exits. | | If you override this in a subclass, it should not return -- it | should either exit or raise an exception. | | exit(self, status=0, message=None) | # =============== | # Exiting methods | # =============== | | format_help(self) | | format_usage(self) | # ======================= | # Help-formatting methods | # ======================= | | parse_args(self, args=None, namespace=None) | # ===================================== | # Command line argument parsing methods | # ===================================== | | parse_known_args(self, args=None, namespace=None) | | print_help(self, file=None) | | print_usage(self, file=None) | # ===================== | # Help-printing methods | # ===================== | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Methods inherited from _AttributeHolder: ... There are no docstrings for methods, hence some internal comments picked up instead. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 274738 nosy: docs@python, py.user priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: In the argparse help(argparse) prints weird comments instead of good docstrings type: behavior versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27994> _______________________________________