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user12969777

Reputation: 63

Suppress the -h/--help argument in argparse

When you create an parser with argparse there is always a default help menu that looks something along the lines of:

usage: program [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

For example if I did the following:

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-t", "--test", help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
parser.parse_args()

And suppressed one of the arguments help messages I would get:

usage: program [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

How can I suppress the -h/--help flag as well?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 672

Answers (1)

Kelly Kuzemchak
Kelly Kuzemchak

Reputation: 197

You can use the optional keyword argument add_help=False when you initialize your ArgumentParser object

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#add-help

Upvotes: 3

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