From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:59:08 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Added the VerbatimHelpFormatter class to the CLI module.
X-Git-Url: http://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?p=dead%2Fcensus-tools.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7910222e257368cd534f5334085f008c36e288c6

Added the VerbatimHelpFormatter class to the CLI module.
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diff --git a/src/CLI.py b/src/CLI.py
index b7fcaaf..4da436e 100644
--- 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