> No, that affects the string printed only *after* the "usage = " string. > What I would like to do is insert some string *before* the "usage = " > string, which is right after the command I type at the command prompt. > So I would like to make it look like this:
The example was fine (except for a typo) as far as demonstrating the concept. Try this corrected version: from optparse import OptionParser usage = '************ THIS IS NEWLY INSERTED STRING ************\nusage: %prog [options] input_file' parser = OptionParser(usage=usage) parser.print_help() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
