paul j3 <ajipa...@gmail.com> added the comment: As documented in many other issues, the usage formatter is brittle. It formats the individual usages, joins them into a string. Then if too long to fit on one line it tries t split into actions, etc. This split produces an assertion error if there are 'wierd' characters in the names (e.g. #[]).
With mutually exclusive groups it gets even worse. The brackets and | are spliced into the original string, and then excess [] and spaces are removed. Once recent issue complained about its handling of nested groups (which are borderline wrong). So I"m not surprised that a long group that spans a couple of lines gets messed up. It requires a major rewrite, and even then I there will be formats involving groups that fall through the cracks. ---------- nosy: +paul.j3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31768> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
