Index: Doc/library/optparse.rst
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--- Doc/library/optparse.rst	(revision 77235)
+++ Doc/library/optparse.rst	(working copy)
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@
    <yourscript> -h
    <yourscript> --help
 
-and :mod:`optparse` will print out a brief summary of your script's options::
+and :mod:`optparse` will print out a brief summary of your script's options:
 
+.. code-block:: text
+
    usage: <yourscript> [options]
 
    options:
@@ -476,8 +478,10 @@
 
 If :mod:`optparse` encounters either ``"-h"`` or ``"--help"`` on the
 command-line, or if you just call :meth:`parser.print_help`, it prints the
-following to standard output::
+following to standard output:
 
+.. code-block:: text
+
    usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2
 
    options:
@@ -549,8 +553,10 @@
     group.add_option("-g", action="store_true", help="Group option.")
     parser.add_option_group(group)
 
-This would result in the following help output::
+This would result in the following help output:
 
+.. code-block:: text
+
     usage:  [options] arg1 arg2
 
     options:
@@ -1126,8 +1132,10 @@
 
   If :mod:`optparse` sees either ``"-h"`` or ``"--help"`` on the command line,
   it will print something like the following help message to stdout (assuming
-  ``sys.argv[0]`` is ``"foo.py"``)::
+  ``sys.argv[0]`` is ``"foo.py"``):
 
+  .. code-block:: text
+
      usage: foo.py [options]
 
      options: