[issue34299] argparse description formatting

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[issue34299] argparse description formatting

Phillip M. Feldman 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

[issue34299] argparse description formatting

Zsolt Cserna 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""",

[issue34299] argparse description formatting

New submission from Phillip M. Feldman : 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