diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index b7ed3f5e7cb..82f11e1b9aa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -2190,8 +2190,8 @@ Exiting methods
 .. method:: ArgumentParser.exit(status=0, message=None)
 
    This method terminates the program, exiting with the specified *status*
-   and, if given, it prints a *message* before that. The user can override
-   this method to handle these steps differently::
+   and, if given, it prints a *message* to :data:`sys.stderr` before that.
+   The user can override this method to handle these steps differently::
 
     class ErrorCatchingArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
         def exit(self, status=0, message=None):
@@ -2201,8 +2201,8 @@ Exiting methods
 
 .. method:: ArgumentParser.error(message)
 
-   This method prints a usage message including the *message* to the
-   standard error and terminates the program with a status code of 2.
+   This method prints a usage message, including the *message*, to
+   :data:`sys.stderr` and terminates the program with a status code of 2.
 
 
 Intermixed parsing