I just started using argparse module. I wrote the following reduced snippet to demonstrate an issue I'm having.

```
from argparse import ArgumentParser

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = ArgumentParser('Test argparse. This string needs to be relatively long to trigger the issue.')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--fin', help='a', required = True)
    parser.add_argument('-o', '--out ', help='b', required = True)
    parser.add_argument('-t', '--trans', help='c', required = True)

    args = parser.parse_args()
    print(repr(vars(args)))

```

`AssertionError` will be produced when script is run with argument **-h**

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "arg.py", line 10, in <module>
    args = parser.parse_args()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1707, in parse_args
    args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1739, in parse_known_args
    namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1945, in _parse_known_args
    start_index = consume_optional(start_index)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1885, in consume_optional
    take_action(action, args, option_string)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1813, in take_action
    action(self, namespace, argument_values, option_string)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 1017, in __call__
    parser.print_help()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 2341, in print_help
    self._print_message(self.format_help(), file)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 2325, in format_help
    return formatter.format_help()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 278, in format_help
    help = self._root_section.format_help()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 208, in format_help
    func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs\py3k\lib\argparse.py", line 329, in _format_usage
    assert ' '.join(opt_parts) == opt_usage
AssertionError

```

Reducing the length of the description string passed to **ArgumentParser** makes it work correctly. ~~Removing one of the arguments will also help.~~

Am I doing something wrong here? My environment is:

> 
> Python 3.3.5 |Anaconda 1.9.2 (64-bit)| (default, Mar 10 2014,
>  11:25:04) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
> 
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