[Python-Dev] Small additions to optparser (original) (raw)

Dan Gass dmgass at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 30 11:23:05 EDT 2004

From: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com> To: python-dev at python.org CC: gward at python.net Subject: [Python-Dev] Small additions to optparser Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:47:35 -0300

Hi Folks, I have two small customizations I've used in most projects I've plugged optparse into. Since they're simple and generic, I'd like to integrate them back in optparser. These features are: - Add a help formatter which uses capitalized headers. - Add a "help" keyword in OptionParser, allowing straightforward addition of a custom help messages. Comments?

It would be nice to have a way for the white space to be cleaned up in the help string. This would be useful when using multiline triple quoted strings to pass in help text to the option parser and you want to indent the help text on each line so the source code reads well.

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