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Author rhettinger
Recipients eric.araujo, mirabilos, rhettinger
Date 2022-02-12.15:56:54
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Éric is correct.  There is not much that can be done about this.  The nomenclature is deeply baked into the code and the docs.

We did change the help output to list "options" rather than "optional arguments".  That helps the end users so that "optional" doesn't imply the opposite of "required".
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