Don't show long options twice in print_help() from argparse

Question

I have the following code:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=\'Postfix Queue Administration Tool\',
        prog=\'pqa\',
        usage=\'%(prog)s         


        

Answer 1

Another solution, using custom descriptions

if you set the metavar='', the help line becomes:

-q , --queue          Show information for 

---

Here I suppress the regular help lines, and replace them with the description lines for a group:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Postfix Queue Administration Tool',
        prog='pqa',
        usage='%(prog)s [-h] [-v,--version]',
        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
        )
parser.add_argument('-l', '--list', action='store_true',
        help='Shows full overview of all queues')
g = parser.add_argument_group(title='information options',
        description='''-q, --queue      Show information for 
-d, --domain    Show information about a specific ''')
g.add_argument('-q', '--queue', action='store', metavar='', dest='queue',
        help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
g.add_argument('-d', '--domain', action='store', metavar='', dest='domain',
        help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version', version='%(prog)s 0.1')
parser.print_help()

---

usage: pqa [-h] [-v,--version]

Postfix Queue Administration Tool

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -l, --list     Shows full overview of all queues
  -v, --version  show program's version number and exit

information options:
  -q, --queue      Show information for 
  -d, --domain    Show information about a specific 

Or you could put that information in the regular description. You already are using a custom usage line.