diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 0014947d019261..d2705e485c3358 100644
--- 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``::