Re: automatically generating a help file
"David Goodger" <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:07:53 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 14:41, Scott Stagg <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to write a function that will use an OptionParser object > to generate a help file. Ultimately, I will have it generate an HTML > file so the help doc for my program can be viewed from the web. The > problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to have > OptionParser return a list of the names of the options I have > defined and the corresponding help information. Does anyone have a > suggestion on how I could do this? No, but I have an alternative. Use "formatter=optparse.TitledHelpFormatter" and run the resulting help text through Docutils to get your HTML. -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08