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Author lonetwin
Recipients BreamoreBoy, adam.woodbeck, bethard, chris.jerdonek, dlam, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, groodt, lonetwin, marcs, sandro.tosi, tshepang, westley.martinez
Date 2014-10-16.07:18:18
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I came here to file a bug against the argparse documentation because reading through the documentation I didn't realize a good usecase for the `epilog` argument to the `ArgumentParser()` class until I started noticing that some commandline tools end with examples of usage.

I found this bug and so thought it would be better to just leave a comment here instead.

I glaced through the submitted patches and noticed that the pizza making example has `epilog="Remember: select a good combination to ensure maximum tastiness` ...which while good, still might not immediately convey the usefulness of the epilog parameter (just IMHO). I think, the example would be better served by something like:

>>> pizza_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
...     description='Make a pizza out of ingredients and toppings',
...     epilog="""Examples: Create a Python Lovers pizza using the command::
...     ./makepizz.py spam ham eggs
...     """)

Of course this example would then also require passing a formatter_class argument to handle the wrapping ...but in essence the point of my comment is that the examples might be more useful if a 'real-world' usage is demonstrated.
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2014-10-16 07:18:19lonetwinsetrecipients: + lonetwin, georg.brandl, bethard, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, sandro.tosi, chris.jerdonek, docs@python, BreamoreBoy, marcs, westley.martinez, tshepang, adam.woodbeck, dlam, groodt
2014-10-16 07:18:18lonetwinsetmessageid: <1413443898.76.0.033412837006.issue11176@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-10-16 07:18:18lonetwinlinkissue11176 messages
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