I'm having a small question about optionparse. Normaly optionparser will format the help text according to the console's width.
I just wondered if there is any way to insert a line breakk into an options help text. Example: from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option("-f", action="store", help="This option is really really complicated" " and I'd like to write" " a few paragrpahs to explain how it works." "\nHowever the line breaks are stripped off" " and it's thus difficult to structure the help text") args = ['-h'] parser.parse_args(args) Is there any trick to force a new paragraph/ line break before the word 'However'? Thanks in advance for suggestions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list