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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Markus.Amalthea.Magnuson, bethard, docs@python, r.david.murray
Date 2012-11-04.05:07:00
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This behavior is inherited from optparse.  I think it is more-or-less intentional, and in any case it is of long enough standing that I don't think we can change it.  We documented it for optparse in another issue, but I don't think we made the corresponding improvement to the argparse docs.
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