New submission from Steven Bethard : Argparse supports silencing help for certain options using SUPPRESS.

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parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--foo', help=argparse.SUPPRESS) parser.print_help() usage: [-h]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit This should be documented in the description of help= http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#help ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 111320 nosy: bethard, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: document argparse's help=SUPPRESS versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue9349 _______________________________________