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  argparse question Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-22 02:57 -0800
    Re: argparse question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-22 12:58 +0100
      Re: argparse question Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-22 21:58 -0800

#66889 — argparse question

I have been reading the argparse section of the 3.3 docs, and running all the example code.

But in section 16.4.2.6. for the formatter_class, the second example in that section 
illustrating RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, the example code is:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
     prog='PROG',
     formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
     description=textwrap.dedent('''\
         Please do not mess up this text!
         --------------------------------
             I have indented it
             exactly the way
             I want it
         '''))
parser.print_help()

But trying to run this gives a NameError on the "description=" line, saying textwrap is not 
defined.  If I delete the "textwrap.dedent" (with or without also deleting the extra 
parentheses) it will then run, but without the un-indenting it is trying to illustrate.

What is the proper way to enable the dedent() method here?

All the other examples have run correctly (that is, the one's I've tried -- I'm still reading).
Also, it should be obvious that while the "import argparse" line is not shown in the examples, 
it IS in the code samples I've been running.

Using 3.3 under Linux (Mint 15).

      -=- Larry -=-

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#66893

Larry Hudson wrote:

> I have been reading the argparse section of the 3.3 docs, and running all
> the example code.
> 
> But in section 16.4.2.6. for the formatter_class, the second example in
> that section illustrating RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, the example code
> is:
> 
> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
>      prog='PROG',
>      formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
>      description=textwrap.dedent('''\
>          Please do not mess up this text!
>          --------------------------------
>              I have indented it
>              exactly the way
>              I want it
>          '''))
> parser.print_help()
> 
> But trying to run this gives a NameError on the "description=" line,
> saying textwrap is not
> defined.  If I delete the "textwrap.dedent" (with or without also deleting
> the extra parentheses) it will then run, but without the un-indenting it
> is trying to illustrate.
> 
> What is the proper way to enable the dedent() method here?

textwrap is a module like argparse, and the example doesn't show

import argparse

either. Insert

import textwrap

at the beginning of your module and the code should run without error.

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#66918

On 02/22/2014 03:58 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> Larry Hudson wrote:
>
>> I have been reading the argparse section of the 3.3 docs, and running all
>> the example code.
>>
>> But in section 16.4.2.6. for the formatter_class, the second example in
>> that section illustrating RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, the example code
>> is:
>>
>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
>>       prog='PROG',
>>       formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
>>       description=textwrap.dedent('''\
>>           Please do not mess up this text!
>>           --------------------------------
>>               I have indented it
>>               exactly the way
>>               I want it
>>           '''))
>> parser.print_help()
>>
>> But trying to run this gives a NameError on the "description=" line,
>> saying textwrap is not
>> defined.  If I delete the "textwrap.dedent" (with or without also deleting
>> the extra parentheses) it will then run, but without the un-indenting it
>> is trying to illustrate.
>>
>> What is the proper way to enable the dedent() method here?
>
> textwrap is a module like argparse, and the example doesn't show
>
> import argparse
>
> either. Insert
>
> import textwrap
>
> at the beginning of your module and the code should run without error.
>

Thanx.
Guess I shoulda searched for textwrap or dedent in the docs.   :-)

      -=- Larry -=-

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