[New-bugs-announce] [issue34299] argparse description formatting

[Phillip M. Feldman]

New submission from Phillip M. Feldman <Phillip.M.Feldman at gmail.com>:

With `argparse`, I'm providing a triple-quoted string via the `description` argument of the constructor.  When I invoke the script with the -h or --help argument, all formatting in the triple-quoted string is lost, i.e., all paragraphs are run together into one giant paragraph, and the result is rather hard to read.

Phillip M. Feldman

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 322808
nosy: Phillip.M.Feldman at gmail.com
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse description formatting
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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