# HG changeset patch
# Parent 7d8339083cb3ae4352d7517325b58f7fb750a5d9

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,41 @@ will figure out how to parse those out o
 module also automatically generates help and usage messages and issues errors
 when users give the program invalid arguments.
 
+Quick Reference
+---------------
+
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|                 |``nargs``|``const``       |``default``|``type``|``choices``|``required``|``help``|``metavar``|``dest``|``version``|
++=================+=========+================+===========+========+===========+============+========+===========+========+===========+
+|``store``        |x        |if ``nargs='?'``|x          |x       |x          |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``store_const``  |         |x               |x          |        |           |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``store_true``   |         |x               |x          |        |           |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``store_false``  |         |x               |x          |        |           |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``append``       |x        |if ``nargs='?'``|x          |x       |x          |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``append_const`` |         |x               |x          |        |           |x           |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``count``        |         |                |           |        |           |            |x       |x          |x       |           |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+|``version``      |         |                |           |        |           |            |        |           |        |x          |
++-----------------+---------+----------------+-----------+--------+-----------+------------+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
+
+.. note::
+
+    * ``default`` can be set to ``argparse.SUPPRESS`` to prevent the
+      attribute from being added
+
+    * ``nargs='?'`` will use ``default`` if the argument is not
+      specified, but ``const`` if the argument is specified with no
+      value provided
+
+    * list-type ``nargs`` (an ``int``, ``'*'`` or ``'+'``) causes a
+      list to be used: ``store`` becomes a list and ``append`` becomes
+      a list of lists
 
 Example
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