[New-bugs-announce] [issue12284] argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option

[Jonas H.]

New submission from Jonas H. <jonas at lophus.org>:

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 option1 option2

impossible.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 137905
nosy: jonash
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse.ArgumentParser: usage example option
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7

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