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Author terry.reedy
Recipients Vanessa McHale, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date 2017-06-09.21:14:06
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For future reference, small code examples should be including in the message or uploaded as a .py file.

A unicode string is a sequence of codepoints.  The length is defined as the number of codepoints.  I cannot see that your example demonstrates a bug in argparse.
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