New submission from Roy Smith: The following code, when run with "--help", omits the trailing newlines from the epilog. It should just emit the string verbatim. If the developer didn't want the extra newlines, he/she wouldn't have put them there.
import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter, epilog="foo\n\n") parser.parse_args() ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 181267 nosy: roysmith priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter should not delete blank lines type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17113> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com