How to get the content of help of argparse, and not to print to console

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I'm work on telegram bot, not the console, need to get the help content to send to user, rather than print out to console, something like this

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-a", "--aaa", help="help for aaa")
cmd=["-a", "seta"]
args = parser.parse_args(cmd)
helpstring = parser.print_help() # get the help content for furthur process
telegrambot.send(helpstring)
argparse python
1 Answers

You can use the parser.format_help method:

>>> parser.format_help()
'usage: [-h] [-a AAA]\n\noptional arguments:\n  -h, --help         show this help message and exit\n  -a AAA, --aaa AAA  help for aaa\n'
>>> print(parser.format_help())
usage: [-h] [-a AAA]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -a AAA, --aaa AAA  help for aaa
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