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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions Doc/library/argparse.rst
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Expand Up @@ -2190,8 +2190,8 @@ Exiting methods
.. method:: ArgumentParser.exit(status=0, message=None)

This method terminates the program, exiting with the specified *status*
and, if given, it prints a *message* before that. The user can override
this method to handle these steps differently::
and, if given, it prints a *message* to :data:`sys.stderr` before that.
The user can override this method to handle these steps differently::

class ErrorCatchingArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
def exit(self, status=0, message=None):
Expand All @@ -2201,8 +2201,8 @@ Exiting methods

.. method:: ArgumentParser.error(message)

This method prints a usage message including the *message* to the
standard error and terminates the program with a status code of 2.
This method prints a usage message, including the *message*, to
:data:`sys.stderr` and terminates the program with a status code of 2.


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