On 10/09/11 22:43, Gelonida N wrote:
I'm having a small question about optionparse.Normaly optionparser will format the help text according to the console's width. I just wondered if there is any way to insert a line breakk into an options help text. Example: from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option("-f", action="store", help="This option is really really complicated" " and I'd like to write" " a few paragrpahs to explain how it works." "\nHowever the line breaks are stripped off" " and it's thus difficult to structure the help text") args = ['-h'] parser.parse_args(args) Is there any trick to force a new paragraph/ line break before the word 'However'? Thanks in advance for suggestions.
You can use """ for multiple line texts: >>> text = \ ... """fsdfsfsdfsdf ... sfsdfsfsdf ... sdfsdf s ... ... """ >>> text 'fsdfsfsdfsdf\n sfsdfsfsdf\nsdfsdf s\n\n' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
