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diff --git a/Doc/howto/argparse.rst b/Doc/howto/argparse.rst index a134036802..510d1d49db 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/argparse.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ recommended command-line parsing module in the Python standard library. .. note:: - There's two other modules that fulfill the same task, namely + There are two other modules that fulfill the same task, namely :mod:`getopt` (an equivalent for :c:func:`getopt` from the C language) and the deprecated :mod:`optparse`. Note also that :mod:`argparse` is based on :mod:`optparse`, @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ A few concepts we can learn from the four commands: * That's a snippet of the help text. It's very useful in that you can come across a program you have never used before, and can figure out - how it works simply by reading it's help text. + how it works simply by reading its help text. The basics @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ verbosity argument (check the output of ``python --help``):: print(answer) We have introduced another action, "count", -to count the number of occurences of a specific optional arguments: +to count the number of occurrences of a specific optional arguments: .. code-block:: sh @@ -668,8 +668,8 @@ Conflicting options So far, we have been working with two methods of an :class:`argparse.ArgumentParser` instance. Let's introduce a third one, :meth:`add_mutually_exclusive_group`. It allows for us to specify options that -conflict with each other. Let's also change the rest of the program make the -new functionality makes more sense: +conflict with each other. Let's also change the rest of the program so that +the new functionality makes more sense: we'll introduce the ``--quiet`` option, which will be the opposite of the ``--verbose`` one:: |