[issue16418] argparse with many choices can generate absurdly long usage message

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

The argparse documentation says in one part, "The choices keyword argument may be more convenient for type checkers that simply check against a range of values."

Thus, I wouldn't object to language clarifying that choices is meant for lists of choices that should be displayed in the command-line help (e.g. "smaller" lists and human-readable).

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