New submission from BJ Dierkes <wdier...@gmail.com>:
Having the ability to 'hide' positional/option arguments and subparsers in
argparse would be useful. For example, I might want to add a subparser for
'somecommand-help' which would be a commands specifically for displaying help
output of 'somecommand'. There is no reason I'd want to display this as an
available argument... but rather simply add to the description "For more info
try <command>-help".
Something like:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
sub = parser.add_subparsers()
somecommand_help = sub.add_parser('somecommand-help', hide=True)
OR
parser.add_argument('--some-crazy-option', hide=True).
It would then not display in the '--help' output, but would still function when
'somecommand-help' or '--some-crazy-option' is passed at command line. Would
also be an extra bonus to add some sort of interface to
'list_hidden_arguments').
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components: None
messages: 141601
nosy: derks
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse - add 'hide' feature
type: feature request
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue12686>
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