[3.6] bpo-31330: Clarify that RawTextHelpFormatter collapses repeated… · python/cpython@e89b35d (original) (raw)

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@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ should not be line-wrapped::
426 426 -h, --help show this help message and exit
427 427
428 428 :class:`RawTextHelpFormatter` maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text,
429 -including argument descriptions.
429 +including argument descriptions. However, multiple new lines are replaced with
430 +one. If you wish to preserve multiple blank lines, add spaces between the
431 +newlines.
430 432
431 433 :class:`ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter` automatically adds information about
432 434 default values to each of the argument help messages::