From 0be5d925df1570d21a124ab672a47b117ca6c2db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Santi Hernandez Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:24:16 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] gh-72406: Document argument ordering in argparse help output (GH-148534) (cherry picked from commit 4286227308ee8dafc867062df4cad73af2a84696) Co-authored-by: Santi Hernandez Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski --- Doc/library/argparse.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index bc36a2933aa314..67d5cd87101b42 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1996,6 +1996,9 @@ Argument groups Note that any arguments not in your user-defined groups will end up back in the usual "positional arguments" and "optional arguments" sections. + Within each argument group, arguments are displayed in help output in the + order in which they are added. + .. deprecated-removed:: 3.11 3.14 Calling :meth:`add_argument_group` on an argument group now raises an exception. This nesting was never supported, often failed to work