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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index e6668b6..1b1b8ba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -535,6 +535,35 @@ help message: default value. If an option has no default value (or the default value is ``None``), ``%default`` expands to ``none``. +When dealing with many options, it is convenient to group these +options for better help output. An :class:`OptionParser` can contain +several option groups, each of which can contain several options. + +Continuing with the parser defined above, adding an +:class:`OptionGroup` to a parser is easy:: + + group = OptionGroup(parser, "Dangerous Options", + "Caution: use these options at your own risk. " + "It is believed that some of them bite.") + group.add_option("-g", action="store_true", help="Group option.") + parser.add_option_group(group) + +This would result in the following help output:: + + usage: [options] arg1 arg2 + + options: + -h, --help show this help message and exit + -v, --verbose make lots of noise [default] + -q, --quiet be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits) + -fFILE, --file=FILE write output to FILE + -mMODE, --mode=MODE interaction mode: one of 'novice', 'intermediate' + [default], 'expert' + + Dangerous Options: + Caution: use of these options is at your own risk. It is believed that + some of them bite. + -g Group option. .. _optparse-printing-version-string: |