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Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text
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Date 2011-09-11 15:20 +1000
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Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> writes:

> Considering, that you posted the snippet in 2007 and this is very
> probably a reocurring problem for any slighty more complicated help
> text it is really a pity, that it did not become of part of the
> standard optparse library :-(

The ‘optparse’ library is, as the online documentation shows
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html>, deprecated for new
code:

    The optparse module is deprecated and will not be developed further;
    development will continue with the argparse module.

The standard library ‘argparse’ module has a feature you might prefer
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#formatter-class>.

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Ben Finney

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Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 00:16 +0200
  Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2011-09-11 02:12 +0100
    Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 03:54 +0200
    Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-09-10 21:08 -0500
    Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 05:07 +0200
      Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-09-11 15:20 +1000
        Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 16:30 +0200
    Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-09-11 06:05 -0500
    Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 15:22 -0500

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