[RFC] Condense help listings

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Mon Sep 25 05:06:34 BST 2006


On 24 Sep 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Martin Pool wrote:
> >>          for line in lines:
> >> -            print >> outfile, line
> >> -        
> >> +            outfile.write(line + '\n')
> > 
> > I would be inclined to add a '\n' to helpstring, then just
> > outfile.writelines(lines)
> 
> Since textwrap.wrap doesn't add newlines, that would produce weird
> formatting for multiline descriptions.

You're right, I always half expect writelines will add them.

-- 
Martin




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