document argparse's help=SUPPRESS

[bethard]

BPO	9349
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title = "document argparse's help=SUPPRESS"
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[bethard]

Argparse supports silencing help for certain options using SUPPRESS.

>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
>>> parser.print_help()
usage: [-h]

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit

This should be documented in the description of help=

http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#help

[python-dev]

New changeset 572ddf2770bc by Sandro Tosi in branch '3.2':
Issue bpo-9349: add argparse.SUPPRESS to help doc
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/572ddf2770bc

New changeset 17b7b856cbe8 by Sandro Tosi in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-9349: add argparse.SUPPRESS to help doc
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/17b7b856cbe8