[issue14504] Suggestion to improve argparse's help messages for "store_const"

Steven Bethard added the comment: Special casing the formatting of 'store_const' makes me nervous because formatting is already complicated and it doesn't know anything about action types. But feel free to propose a patch! In the meantime: - propagate the default to all the options You can

[issue14504] Suggestion to improve argparse's help messages for "store_const"

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[issue14504] Suggestion to improve argparse's help messages for "store_const"

New submission from Amnon Harel : argparse's help messages for variables that use "store_const" can probably be improved: - propagate the default to all the options - mark the default option as such explicitly - group the keywords that have the same destination together (?) - place the default o