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Author	cykerway
Recipients	bethard, cykerway, paul.j3, rhettinger, shihai1991, tshepang, vvas
Date	2020-02-04.02:53:58
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Message-id	<1580784839.1.0.4241060592.issue14074@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Tuple support is documented: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/98047eb806227f11212f6a42c242030a51964e30#diff-9c4a053d29149ba40370fbdddd3e34faR1059 https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#metavar > Providing a tuple to ``metavar`` specifies a different display for each of the arguments: From his word here I feel like our professor meant to support tuple metavar but the implementation was not careful. He called for a patch eight years ago. Let's summon him and see if he has changed his mind?

Tuple support is documented:

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/98047eb806227f11212f6a42c242030a51964e30#diff-9c4a053d29149ba40370fbdddd3e34faR1059

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#metavar

>   Providing a tuple to ``metavar`` specifies a different display for each of the arguments:

From his word here I feel like our professor meant to support tuple metavar but the implementation was not careful. He called for a patch eight years ago. Let's summon him and see if he has changed his mind?

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