[Python-checkins] Fix error messages in argparse examples (GH-6435)

Zachary Ware webhook-mailer at python.org
Wed Apr 11 14:45:13 EDT 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/04e82934659487ecae76bf4a2db7f92c8dbe0d25
commit: 04e82934659487ecae76bf4a2db7f92c8dbe0d25
branch: master
author: suic86 <marko.gabriel.cz at gmail.com>
committer: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware at gmail.com>
date: 2018-04-11T13:45:04-05:00
summary:

Fix error messages in argparse examples (GH-6435)

The examples in argparse documentation use `error: too few arguments`
error message which was removed in this commit f97c59a in 2011.

files:
M Doc/library/argparse.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index cc99cce2b27d..3f327c0cfa77 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ be positional::
    Namespace(bar='BAR', foo='FOO')
    >>> parser.parse_args(['--foo', 'FOO'])
    usage: PROG [-h] [-f FOO] bar
-   PROG: error: too few arguments
+   PROG: error: the following arguments are required: bar
 
 
 action
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ values are:
      Namespace(foo=['a', 'b'])
      >>> parser.parse_args([])
      usage: PROG [-h] foo [foo ...]
-     PROG: error: too few arguments
+     PROG: error: the following arguments are required: foo
 
 .. _`argparse.REMAINDER`:
 



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