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I am creating a command line tool in python, and I'm using argparse to parse my input.

I want to use '-h' as an action, but that is already automatically assigned to --help. How can I override this and have an -h action?

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  • Why? That's likely to be very irritating for your users. Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 18:39
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    Your question is almost a duplicate of this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/13075241/… Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 18:39
  • @jonrsharpe I needed it the other day, because I was building a wrapper around some other specialised software. I wanted to keep the flags identical between the wrapper and the software. Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 18:42

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parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)

Thanks for asking, because I had the same problem the other day and only bothered checking the documentation now.

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