Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 :-(
The ‘optparse’ library is, as the online documentation shows <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html>, deprecated for new code: The optparse module is deprecated and will not be developed further; development will continue with the argparse module. The standard library ‘argparse’ module has a feature you might prefer <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#formatter-class>. -- \ “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be | `\ made in a very narrow field.” —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
