diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4f2c1de..4f8a165 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: argparse
 Type: Package
 Title: Command Line Optional and Positional Argument Parser
-Version: 2.1.2
+Version: 2.1.3
 Authors@R: c(person("Trevor L", "Davis", role=c("aut", "cre"), email="trevor.l.davis@gmail.com"),
     person("Allen", "Day", role="ctb", comment="Some documentation and examples ported from the getopt package."),
     person("Python Software Foundation", role="ctb", comment="Some documentation from the optparse Python module."),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index fc73e5e..2e05123 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+argparse 2.1.3
+==============
+
+* Prevents extraneous error message from being included in usage message 
+  when using Python 3.10 (#36).
+  Thanks @dariober for bug report.
+
 argparse 2.1.2
 ==============
 
diff --git a/R/argparse.R b/R/argparse.R
index 0c898d6..9bf23a2 100644
--- a/R/argparse.R
+++ b/R/argparse.R
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Parser <- R6Class("Parser", # nolint
 parse_args_output <- function(output) {
     if (grepl("^usage:", output[1])) {
         has_positional_arguments <- any(grepl("^positional arguments:", output))
-        has_optional_arguments <- any(grepl("^optional arguments:", output))
+        has_optional_arguments <- any(grepl("^optional arguments:|^options:", output))
         if (has_positional_arguments || has_optional_arguments) {
             .print_message_and_exit(output, "help requested:")
         } else {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-argparse.R b/tests/testthat/test-argparse.R
index 12454ab..a2ca5be 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-argparse.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-argparse.R
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ test_that("print_help works as expected", {
     skip_if_not(detects_python())
     parser <- ArgumentParser(description = "Process some integers.")
     expect_output(parser$print_help(), "usage:")
-    expect_output(parser$print_help(), "optional arguments:")
+    expect_output(parser$print_help(), "optional arguments:|options:")
     expect_output(parser$print_help(), "Process some integers.")
     expect_output(parser$print_usage(), "usage:")
 
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ test_that("Paths that quit()", {
 
     help <- system2(cmd, c("scripts/test_help.R", "--help"),
                     stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE)
-    expect_equal(help,
-                 c("usage: scripts/test_help.R [-h]", "", "optional arguments:",
-                   "  -h, --help  show this help message and exit"))
+    expect_equal("usage: scripts/test_help.R [-h]", help[2])
+    expect_equal("  -h, --help  show this help message and exit", help[5])
 })