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Author csernazs
Recipients Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com, csernazs
Date 2018-07-31.19:43:52
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Message-id <1533066232.3.0.56676864532.issue34299@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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You would need to use the RawTextHelpFormatter as format_class for the constructor. In this case, argparse will apply no re-wrapping of the description.

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""foo
bar
baz""", formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter)
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2018-07-31 19:43:52csernazssetmessageid: <1533066232.3.0.56676864532.issue34299@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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