[issue43942] RawDescriptionHelpFormatter seems to be ignored for argument descriptions

2021-05-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Reuben Thomas added the comment: D'oh! Sorry for the noise. And congratulations to the author/designer of `RawDescriptionHelpFormatter` for designing/implementing exactly what I wanted all along! -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue43942] RawDescriptionHelpFormatter seems to be ignored for argument descriptions

2021-05-04 Thread paul j3
paul j3 added the comment: You test with RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, but quote from the RawTextHelpFormatter. -- nosy: +paul.j3 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue43942] RawDescriptionHelpFormatter seems to be ignored for argument descriptions

2021-04-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Reuben Thomas added the comment: (Tested with Python 3.9.4.) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue43942] RawDescriptionHelpFormatter seems to be ignored for argument descriptions

2021-04-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
New submission from Reuben Thomas : The documentation seems very clear on this subject: "RawTextHelpFormatter maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text, including argument descriptions. However, multiple new lines are replaced with one." But consider the following code: ``` from