diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 475cac70291e9a..61aef7b82fa731 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -1043,6 +1043,17 @@ If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consu
is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument
will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced.
+* ``'...'``. The remaining command-line args are gathered into a list,
+ including optional arguments. If there are no remaining arguments,
+ an empty list is returned. For example::
+
+ >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ >>> parser.add_argument('cmd')
+ >>> parser.add_argument('args', nargs='...')
+ >>> parser.parse_args('script.sh -v -n'.split())
+ Namespace(cmd=['script.sh'], args=['-v', '-n'])
+ >>> parser.parse_args('script.sh'.split())
+ Namespace(cmd=['script.sh'], args=[])
.. _const:
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