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@@ -1082,6 +1082,9 @@ specifiers include the program name, ``%(prog)s`` and most keyword arguments to
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
+As the help string supports %-formatting, if you want a literal ``%`` to appear
+in the help string, you must escape it as ``%%``.
+
:mod:`argparse` supports silencing the help entry for certain options, by
setting the ``help`` value to ``argparse.SUPPRESS``::