Improve argparse usage/help customization

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading the linked BPO issue 11695 and the attached issue11695_1.patch. The issue does not identify repository files, tests, or concrete acceptance criteria, so clarify the intended argparse usage/help customization and what behavior should count as done before changing code.

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Description

stdlib type-feature
BPO 11695
Nosy @cjerdonek, @akheron, @berkerpeksag
Files
  • issue11695_1.patch
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2011-03-27.14:05:43.283>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Improve argparse usage/help customization'
updated_at = <Date 2014-06-21.19:01:31.928>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/bethard'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2014-06-21.19:01:31.928>
actor = 'paul.j3'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2011-03-27.14:05:43.283>
creator = 'bethard'
dependencies = []
files = ['35713']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 11695
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 5.0
messages = ['132322', '179522', '221063', '221123', '221187']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['bethard', 'chris.jerdonek', 'jcon', 'petri.lehtinen', 'berker.peksag', 'paul.j3']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue11695'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.5']

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