Phillip M. Feldman <phillip.m.feld...@gmail.com> added the comment:
That works. Thanks! I think that this boils down to a documentation issue. The following says that the default behavior is to line-wrap the help messages. At least to me, this doesn't imply that whitespace is getting eaten. RawDescriptionHelpFormatter <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter> and RawTextHelpFormatter <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter> give more control over how textual descriptions are displayed. By default, ArgumentParser <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.ArgumentParser> objects line-wrap the description <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#description> and epilog <https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#epilog> texts in command-line help messages: On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Zsolt Cserna <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Zsolt Cserna <cserna.zs...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > You would need to use the RawTextHelpFormatter as format_class for the > constructor. In this case, argparse will apply no re-wrapping of the > description. > > import argparse > > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""foo > bar > baz""", formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter) > > ---------- > nosy: +csernazs > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue34299> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34299> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
