extend_argparse.HelpFormatterRespectNewlines Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for extend_argparse.HelpFormatterRespectNewlines:

Private Member Functions
def	_split_lines (self, text, width)

Detailed Description

Help message formatter which retains line breaks in argument descriptions.

Only the name of this class is considered a public API. All the methods
provided by the class are considered an implementation detail.

Definition at line 5 of file extend_argparse.py.

Member Function Documentation

def extend_argparse.HelpFormatterRespectNewlines._split_lines (   self,   text,   width  )

private

Definition at line 12 of file extend_argparse.py.

References digitizers_cfi.strip.

Referenced by argparse.HelpFormatter._format_action(), and python.rootplot.argparse.HelpFormatter._format_action().

    def _split_lines(self, text, width):
        lines = []
        for line in text.splitlines():
          line = self._whitespace_matcher.sub(' ', line).strip()
          lines.extend( _textwrap.wrap(line, width) )
        return lines

# argparse's formatters are not really able to discover the terminale size, so we override them