[issue40420] argparse choices formatter

paul j3 added the comment: Related topic re. long usage with choices : https://bugs.python.org/issue16418 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40420] argparse choices formatter

paul j3 added the comment: The display of the choices has been discussed in previous issues. When the choices is long there isn't a clean way of handling the display. I'd suggest using a 'metavar' to show a short value, and then enumerate the choices in the help text. Use the 'Raw' help

[issue40420] argparse choices formatter

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[issue40420] argparse choices formatter

New submission from Leonid Ilyevsky : In my script I have a positional argument with list of choices, and that list is pretty long. The help formatter shows it as one long line, list in curly brackets, comma-separated. This is very difficult to look at and find the choice I need. It would