Count László de Almásy wrote: > Is there a standard way with optparse to include a blurb of text after > the usage section, description, and the list of options? This is > often useful to include examples or closing comments when the help > message is printed out. Many of the GNU commands do this. > > It would look something like this: > > % program --help > > usage: program [options] > > This is my description text. > > options: > -f BAR, --foo=BAR > A sample option > --version show program's version number and exit > --help show this help message and exit > > ==> Now how about closing text after the options list?
What would you like this API to look like? I could add this pretty easily to argparse_ this week. Maybe something like:: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description='This is my ...', tail='Now how about closing ...' ) Or is there another API that would be better? .. _argparse: http://argparse.python-hosting.com/ STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list