I'm trying to use argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter to get my epilog
string formatted the way I want. This works:
def parse_cli():
epilog = """\
This my very long epilog string
which goes on for several lines.
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(\
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
pilog=textwrap.dedent(epilog))
but it's annoying to have to type my triple-quoted string with the
backslash for the first line (following the example from
http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/textwrap.html). It would be much(*)
nicer to be able to do:
epilog = """This my very long epilog string
which goes on for several lines.
"""
and have dedent() figure out the indenting like help() does for
docstrings. How can I do that (in python 2.7)?
(*) For, I suppose, a relatively small value of much, but one which is
bugging the heck out of me at the moment :-)
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