Re: Optparse and help formatting?

def format_option(self, option):
# The help for each option consists of two parts:
# * the opt strings and metavars
[snip]

Tim, I notice you're using lots of # lines as comments to describe the
function. Perhaps you should consider using docstrings instead.

Pardon me if I'm telling you what you already know...

Yes, I do know about and use docstrings, and no, no offense
taken. You'll have to persuade the [Debian/Python] maintainer of
optparse.py from whom I pilfered the code. :)

tim@rubbish:~$ sed -n '/def format_option(/{N;N;N;N;N;p}'
/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py

def format_option(self, option):
# The help for each option consists of two parts:
# * the opt strings and metavars
# eg. ("-x", or "-fFILENAME, --file=FILENAME")
# * the user-supplied help string
# eg. ("turn on expert mode", "read data from FILENAME")


-tim




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