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I am working on a small Python program that needs to get some command line parameters and use argparse to display usage message . I have these 2 lines 

parser.add_argument("-r",type=int,default=1)
parser.add_argument("-c",type=int,default=2)

And the requirement is that I show the user this message : 

*usage: myprogram.py [-h]  [-r ROWS] [-c COLUMNS]*

However what I show the user is - 

*usage: myprogram.py [-h] [-r R] [-c C]*

How can I turn [-r R] into [-r ROW] (and in the same manner [-c C] to [-c COLUMNS])?

I have looked at the argsparse docs quite a bit with no avail...

AShelly
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Use the metavar parameter:

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-r", type=int, default=1, metavar='ROWS')
parser.add_argument("-c", type=int, default=2, metavar='COLUMNS')
args = parser.parse_args()

Then, python test.py -h yields

usage: test.py [-h] [-r ROWS] [-c COLUMNS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -r ROWS
  -c COLUMNS
unutbu
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