Hi Tim,
Thanks a lot!!! On 09/11/2011 04:08 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 09/10/11 20:54, Gelonida N wrote: >>> Unfortunately the help text is formatted using textwrap, which presumes >>> that the entire text is a single paragraph. To get paragraphs in the >>> help text, you'll need to write an IndentedHelpFormatter subclass that >>> splits the text on "\n\n", textwraps the split string individually, then >>> re-joins them. _format_text() and format_option() look like the methods >>> that would need replacing. > > Just in case you want it: > > http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/734066-how-output-newline-carriage-return-optparse > It works (of course ;-) ) like a charm. Good to know, that I'm not the only one who want's to structure the help text a little nicer. > > it's come up several times and several years ago I hacked together > exactly the solution Rhodri mentions. Considering, that you posted the snippet in 2007 and this is very probably a reocurring problem for any slighty more complicated help text it is really a pity, that it did not become of part of the standard optparse library :-( Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
