[issue14102] argparse: add ability to create a man page

[Pavel Raiskup]

Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> added the comment:

On Friday, June 15, 2018 1:52:41 AM CEST Ben Finney wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-14 23:46 +0000, Aaron Meurer <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > Couldn't such a tool exist outside the standard library.
> 
> I've tried writing such a tool. It would ideally re-use as much as feasible of
> the functionality that assembles the usage message.

FWIW, I followed you and andialbrecht's solution, and did some changes to the
code (now the code is in PyPi as argparse-manpage).  Feel free to take what's
considered useful.

> So this bug report asks for that work to be done in the ‘argparse’ library.

Agreed.

> > Installing the manpage is a separate concern.
> 
> Yes, I agree. That is not part of this bug report.

I think installation is valid concern;  so it should be tracked somewhere.

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