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Author iritkatriel
Recipients Yogesh.Chaudhari, bethard, gholms, iritkatriel, martin.panter, paul.j3, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2021-12-10.16:06:27
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I'm unable to reproduce this problem on 3.11:

>>> import argparse
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
>>> group.add_argument('--spam', help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
_StoreAction(option_strings=['--spam'], dest='spam', nargs=None, const=None, default=None, type=None, choices=None, help='==SUPPRESS==', metavar=None)
>>> parser.add_argument('--' + 'eggs' * 20, dest='eggs')
_StoreAction(option_strings=['--eggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggs'], dest='eggs', nargs=None, const=None, default=None, type=None, choices=None, help=None, metavar=None)
>>> parser.print_usage()
usage: [-h]  [--eggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggseggs EGGS]
>>>
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