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Disable long option abbreviation (`--destructive` vs `--destructive-mode`)
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Description
### What needs to get done
By default, `argparse` allows abbreviated commands, such as `--destructive-mode` being specified as `--destructive`.
Since Python 3.5, this default behavior can be disabled by setting `allow_abbrev=False` when instantiating `argparse.ArgumentParser`:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#allow-abbrev
Found by @thp-canonical and @Ardelean-Calin
### Why it needs to get done
This avoids wrongly learning command-line arguments that might at some point not be unique anymore.
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