paul j3 <ajipa...@gmail.com> added the comment:

This is has been requested various times on StackOverflow, and possibly here 
(I'd have to do a search).

The closest thing to making a compact action_invocation is to set the metavar 
to '', and even thing we get a space, eg.

     -f , --foo   Help text

This repeat has been a part of argparse from the beginning, so I can't see 
changing the default behavior.  But we could add a HelpFormatter subclass that 
changes one (or two methods) such as _format_action_invocation.  Subclassing 
the formatter is the accepted way of adding help features.   I, and possibly 
others, must have suggested such a change on SO.

Of course people can use such a subclass without it being part of the standard 
module.

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