Message 291836 - Python tracker

Message291836

Author louielu
Recipients Aaron.Meurer, Daniel.Walsh, Ingo.Fischer, Oz.Tiram, acucci, adregner, andialbrecht, bethard, bignose, bochecha, dmalcolm, eric.araujo, josh.r, jwilk, louielu, matthewjohn, paul.j3, rhettinger, sigi, tshepang, zbysz
Date 2017-04-18.14:28:06
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Hi all, I've created a PR for this, please help for code review.

I found that previous method from Oz had a problem, that man page and general help page will share a Formatter, that cause an unexpected behavior that help page will generate with troff format (Unix man page used this format).

I switch to another method that creates a Manpage class and a private _ManpageFormatter, we just need to put parser into this Manpage, the __str__ method will generate the man page that we want.

This approach prevents help page format affect by ManpageFormatter, and the user can happily switching formatter_class to RawDescriptionHelpForatter, RawTextHelpForatter and others, since the Manpage class is separate from HelpFormatter, and _ManpageFormatter will used the formatter provide from parser.

The attach file is a dummy argparser file, you can try it by this:

  ./python poc.py > poc.1 && man ./poc.1
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2017-04-18 14:28:07louielusetrecipients: + louielu, rhettinger, bethard, jwilk, eric.araujo, zbysz, dmalcolm, Aaron.Meurer, bignose, andialbrecht, bochecha, tshepang, paul.j3, sigi, Daniel.Walsh, Ingo.Fischer, adregner, josh.r, Oz.Tiram, acucci, matthewjohn
2017-04-18 14:28:06louielusetmessageid: <1492525686.96.0.424548624973.issue14102@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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