diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index f4109fe0e5f2bf..621664dec75ce5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ The parse_args() method
    created and how they are assigned. See the documentation for
    :meth:`!add_argument` for details.
 
-   * args_ - List of strings to parse.  The default is taken from
+   * args_ - List of strings to parse, in normal iteration order.  The default is taken from
      :data:`sys.argv`.
 
    * namespace_ - An object to take the attributes.  The default is a new empty