On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_rem...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Playing with ArgumentParser. I can't find a way to override the -h and --help > options so that it provides my custom help message. > > -h, --help show this help message and exit > > Here is what I am trying: > > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser("csresolver.py",add_help=False) > parser.add_argument("-h","--help", > help="USAGE: <STDIN> | myscript.py [-exf Exception File]") > parser.add_argument("-e","--ext", type=str, > help="Exception file") > args = parser.parse_args() > > > The result: > > $ ./myscript.py -h > usage: myscript.py [-h HELP] [-e EXT] > csresolver.py: error: argument -h/--help: expected one argument > > am I missing something obvious?
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