New submission from Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com>: I'm going to try to merge several closely related issues here. Basically, people would like better control over the usage message formatting so that you could:
* Put program name and version information at the top of the message * Customize the "usage:" string (e.g. capitalize it) One proposal from anatoly techtonik would be to allow a format string so that you could write something like """My Program, version 3.5 Usage: %(usage)s Some description of my program %(argument_groups)% My epliog text """ This should be implemented as a HelpFormatter class, but we might have to expose a little more of the HelpFormatter API (which is currently documented as a no-public API) to make this possible. Patches welcome. ;-) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 132322 nosy: bethard priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Improve argparse usage/help customization type: feature request versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11695> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
