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

#8735: better explain semantics of values argument for parse().
925ce135 · Georg Brandl · 38c299be · 925ce135
Commit 925ce135 authored Aug 01, 2010 by 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
+   a :class:`optparse.Values` object to store option arguments in (default: a
-   :class:`optparse.Values`)
+   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