paultopia

import argparse

# this first bit is to enable multiline help text.  apparently this is a known problem with argparse.
# Solution jacked from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853722/python-argparse-how-to-insert-newline-in-the-help-text

import textwrap as _textwrap
class MultilineFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter):
    def _fill_text(self, text, width, indent):
        text = self._whitespace_matcher.sub(' ', text).strip()
        paragraphs = text.split('|n ')