R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: This is partly a doc issue, but there also appear to be bugs in the way the existing functionality works (although it is hard to tell for sure since it isn't documented :) Try using the value argparse.SUPPRESS as the value of help= in various places and you'll see what I mean. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation, Library (Lib) -None keywords: +easy nosy: +bethard, docs@python, r.david.murray stage: -> needs patch title: argparse - add 'hide' feature -> argparse - document (and improve?) use of SUPPRESS with help= versions: +Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12686> _______________________________________