#8735: better explain semantics of *values* argument for parse().

#8735: better explain semantics of values argument for parse().
09410123 · Georg Brandl · 33b6a31c · 09410123
Kaydet (Commit) 09410123 authored Agu 01, 2010 tarafından Georg Brandl
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@@ -1234,8 +1234,9 @@ where the input parameters are
   the list of arguments to process (default: ``sys.argv[1:]``)

 ``values``
-   object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of
-   :class:`optparse.Values`)
+   a :class:`optparse.Values` object to store option arguments in (default: a
+   new instance of :class:`Values`) -- if you give an existing object, the
+   option defaults will not be initialized on it

 and the return values are