diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index ef2fd42783c877..fc1f6ca99a1991 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -2002,7 +2002,14 @@ 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.
+   and, if given, it prints a *message* before that. The user can override
+   this method to handle these steps differently::
+
+    class ErrorCatchingArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+        def exit(self, status=0, message=None):
+            if status:
+                raise Exception(f'Exiting because of an error: {message}')
+            exit(status)
 
 .. method:: ArgumentParser.error(message)