Added the VerbatimHelpFormatter class to the CLI module.

[dead/census-tools.git] / src / CLI.py

diff --git a/src/CLI.py b/src/CLI.py
index b7fcaaff8e49fe8fb377fcdaed8c9cc61caf2938..4da436e9d0351a0d943897575c5887a5874c981c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/CLI.py
+++ b/src/CLI.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from optparse import IndentedHelpFormatter
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
 import Configuration.Defaults
@@ -23,3 +24,15 @@ def default_option_parser(usage=None):
                       default=Configuration.Defaults.DATABASE_USERNAME)
 
     return parser
+
+
+
+class VerbatimHelpFormatter(IndentedHelpFormatter):
+    """
+    The two HelpFormatters supplied with OptParse like to mangle their
+    descriptions during print_help(). This subclassed formatter
+    overrides the format_description() method with an implementation
+    that simply returns the description unmodified.
+    """
+    def format_description(self, description):
+        return description