> I've been using optparse for a while, and I have an option with a
> number of sub-actions I want to describe in the help section:
>
> parser.add_option("-a", "--action",
> help=\
[snipped formatted help]
> """)
>
> Unfortunately, when I run the script with --help, this is what I get
> for the -a option:
[snipped munged formatting of help]
> Is there any way to get the formatting I want?
I had the same issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6df6e6b541a15bc2/09f28e26af0699b1?#09f28e26af0699b1
and was directed by Ben Finney to check out a custom formatter.
I got it working to my satisfaction and posted it in that thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/09f28e26af0699b1
It may be a little more kind in what it does with your help-text.
If you need variant behavior you can take my code and mung it
even further.
The changes are basically a copy&paste (including the comments,
which Steven D'Aprano suggested might be better made into
docstrings) of the format_description() and format_option() calls
from the standard-library's source, and changing a few small
lines to alter the behavior of calls to textwrap.*
Hope this helps,
-tkc
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