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

From	Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text
Date	2011-09-11 15:22 -0500
Organization	The Church of Last Thursday
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On 9/11/11 6:05 AM, Tim Chase wrote:

> As Ben Finney replied, optparse is now deprecated, replaced in part by argparse.
> Unfortunately, argparse wasn't backported to the standard library for earlier
> 2.x series (I think it became available in 2.7, and may run in earlier versions
> if manually added like I had to do on my Debian Py2.6 install). But that makes
> it hard for those of us who want to use a built-in option-parsing library across
> a wide variety of Python versions. I don't strongly care which I use except that
> I want it to be broadly available with minimal fuss.

argparse.py can be simply dropped into your codebase, if you want. That's about 
as minimal of fuss as you can ask for.

   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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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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