paul j3 <ajipa...@gmail.com> added the comment:
https://bugs.python.org/issue13041 is (I think) the latest issue/patch to deal with the help width. I don't like the idea of adding more parameters to the `ArgumentParser` class. It's too complicated already. There are a couple of ways that a user can do this already. One is a custom version of the `parser.format_help`, though as your patch shows, that actually has to go through the `_get_formatter` method. Only `format_help` is listed in the public API. Another is a subclass of HelpFormatter. It just needs to customize the `width` parameter. I vaguely recall suggesting such a subclass in a previous bug/issue, but can't find that. Subclassing HelpFormatter is an established way of customizing the format. Here's a discussion of this on StackOverflow. It uses a simple lambda as `formatter_class`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44333577/explain-lambda-argparse-helpformatterprog-width formatter = lambda prog: argparse.HelpFormatter(prog, width=100) and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32888815/max-help-position-is-not-works-in-python-argparse-library ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39809> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
