[issue6454] Add "example" keyword argument to optparse constructor
Greg Ward
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Nov 22 16:30:21 CET 2009
Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> added the comment:
> but I feel there is a better and more general
> solution - just provide some minimal formatting for description: treat
> empty line as paragraph separator. Then I would be able to add example
> or anything else to the description formatting it as necessary
Agreed. I have also been bitten by optparse munging paragraphs together
in the description, and it's annoying. I *think* we could get away with
two simple rules:
* blank lines separate paragraphs
* indented lines don't get wrapped
Obviously no one wants to reinvent reStructuredText, but I think that
should do the trick.
If that works, I think the suggested 'examples' arg becomes unnecessary.
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