Format help strings #104
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Format help strings #104
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Intent is to make spacing consistent for short and long options. Signed-off-by: John Pennycook <[email protected]>
Hopefully more readable and maintainable than manually inserting seemingly magic newlines and spaces. Signed-off-by: John Pennycook <[email protected]>
Uses backspace character (\b) because argparse does not provide any way to override the amount of indentation. Although argparse.HelpFormatter exposes an option for the amount of indendation, it is undocumented and not part of the public interface. Signed-off-by: John Pennycook <[email protected]>
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Closes #45.
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_help_stringfunction to consistently format help strings.\nand\bcharacters in the right places to adjustargparseformatting.This might look like a bit of a hack, but all other solutions I could find to this problem rely on creating a subclass of
HelpFormatterthat relies on undocumented behavior.