jzwinck added the comment:
Yes, I have a practical need for dest=SUPPRESS. One of the reasons is
basically what you said: to implement things analogous to --help. In those
cases you want to be able to invoke a function (e.g. via type=myfunc) but not
store anything. Or you may need to
Changes by jzwinck :
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title: argparse.SUPPRESS -> Make argparse.SUPPRESS work as an argument "dest"
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New submission from jzwinck:
argparse.SUPPRESS is a special object which can be used in various parts of
argparse to say "do nothing." One place where it does not seem to work is in
an argument's "dest". This is despite some of the plumbing using
"dest=SUPPRES
