[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

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[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

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[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

Steven Bethard added the comment: %(prog)s is available in epilog: -- temp.py -- import argparse epilog = """\ Example usage: %(prog)s option1 option2 """ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter, epilog=epilog) parser.parse_args

[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

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Jonas H. added the comment: Nope. I want an "examples" section, for example from `man git log`: EXAMPLES git log --no-merges Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi Show all commits since version v2.6.1

[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

Éric Araujo added the comment: Is http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse#usage what you want? -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

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[issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

New submission from Jonas H. : I'd like to see an `examples` option added to argparse.ArgumentParser as found in many man pages. This could also be done using the `epilog` option, but that misses the "%(proc)s" replacement which makes usage examples like this Example usage: ./script.py