[Python-checkins] Fix typo in argparse docs. (GH-92691)

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Wed May 11 23:25:49 EDT 2022


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f67d71b431af064409c1f41f6d73becee01882ae
commit: f67d71b431af064409c1f41f6d73becee01882ae
branch: main
author: thueringa <thueringa at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-05-11T20:25:09-07:00
summary:

Fix typo in argparse docs. (GH-92691)



# Fix typo in argparse docs.

> Sometimes, when dealing with **a** particularly long argument list**s**, [...]

Mixture between plural and singular forms is incorrect. Use singular consistently since typically only a single argument list is employed. Change to:

> Sometimes, when dealing with a particularly long argument list, [...]

No issue was opened, since this is a trivial change.

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:rhettinger

files:
M Doc/library/argparse.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index b5a2b794c2385..1f40e4a84505d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ disallowed.
 fromfile_prefix_chars
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Sometimes, when dealing with a particularly long argument lists, it
+Sometimes, when dealing with a particularly long argument list, it
 may make sense to keep the list of arguments in a file rather than typing it out
 at the command line.  If the ``fromfile_prefix_chars=`` argument is given to the
 :class:`ArgumentParser` constructor, then arguments that start with any of the



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