New submission from A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (Copied from an anonymous submission in the Optik bug tracker.)
There have been some recent discussions on comp.lang.python about the optparse/optik module, and Steve Bethard suggested you might be interested in some of the work done there. I don't know if you'd find any of this helpful for inclusion in Optik/optparse, but Steve says it's come up on your mailing list too. The problem at hand involves formatting help-strings so that they respect newlines. Simply passing formatted help-strings off to the textwrap.* methods mungs the newlines and loses them. The original thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6df6e6 b541a15bc2/acf1d05cad60fc45?#acf1d05cad60fc45 My solution: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/09f28e26af0699b1 Dan then asked about it, and took my solution and ran with it: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e72dee e779d9989b/4ec68cd2a35d52e1?hl=en#4ec68cd2a35d52e1 Feel free to do with it as you like. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 75846 nosy: akuchling severity: normal status: open title: optparse: formatting of help text/descriptions type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4318> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
