[3.13] Note argparse exit code in documentation (GH-119568) (GH-125274)

miss-islington · jkunimune · savannahostrowski · web-flow · commit 319305c0bf12 · 2024-10-10T21:18:17.000+03:00
(cherry picked from commit 3b87fb7) Co-authored-by: Justin Kunimune <justinkunimune@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski <savannahostrowski@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -537,7 +537,8 @@ exit_on_error
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 Normally, when you pass an invalid argument list to the :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args`
-method of an :class:`ArgumentParser`, it will exit with error info.
+method of an :class:`ArgumentParser`, it will print a *message* to :data:`sys.stderr` and exit with a status
+code of 2.
 
 If the user would like to catch errors manually, the feature can be enabled by setting
 ``exit_on_error`` to ``False``::
