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Author paul.j3
Recipients bethard, memeplex, paul.j3
Date 2016-06-13.01:44:59
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18275023/dont-show-long-options-twice-in-print-help-from-argparse

Once answer demonstrates how to change the Formatter:

class CustomHelpFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter):
    def _format_action_invocation(self, action):
        if not action.option_strings or action.nargs == 0:
            return super()._format_action_invocation(action)
        default = self._get_default_metavar_for_optional(action)
        args_string = self._format_args(action, default)
        return ', '.join(action.option_strings) + ' ' + args_string

Another answer suggests using metavar=''.

Another SO question with a few more links:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23936145/python-argparse-help-message-disable-metavar-for-short-options
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