T wrote: > I have a short program using optparse.OptionParser that prints out help > message with -h flag: > > % myprog.py -h > usage: myprog.py [options] input_file > > options: > -h, --help show this help message and exit > -v, --verbose print program's version number and exit > -o FILE Output file > > > My question is, is there a way to print a blank line (or any string) > before "usage: myprog.py [options] input_file" ? I tried using > callbacks without success. I think somehow I need to modify the > behavior of optparse.OptionParser.print_usage() function?
you can make the usage line anything you want. ... usage = 'This is a line before the usage line\nusage %prog [options] input_file' parser = OptionsParser(usage=usage) parser.print_help() ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
