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Author chris.jerdonek
Recipients bethard, chris.jerdonek, kushal.das, ncoghlan, tshepang
Date 2013-01-30.01:52:31
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Have you tried setting the metavar property on the return value of add_subparsers()?  I tried this, and it seems to work.

It looks like the logic for _metavar_formatter() is the same no matter what the action type (specifically _SubParsersAction in this case):

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e81cad0c722a/Lib/argparse.py#l554
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