Hi Folks,

I have two small customizations I've used in most projects I've plugged optparse into. Since they're simple and generic, I'd like to integrate them back in optparser. These features are:

- Add a help formatter which uses capitalized headers. - Add a "help" keyword in OptionParser, allowing straightforward addition of a custom help messages.

Comments?

Also, how are we currently handling changes in optparser? Do we have an "official" maintainer (Greg?). IOW, should I:

- Send a proposed patch to SourceForge - Contact the original project - Commit the patch

FWIW, here is the proposed functionality:

class CapitalizedHelpFormatter(optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter):

def format_usage(self, usage): return optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter \ .format_usage(self, usage).capitalize()

def format_heading(self, heading): return optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter \ .format_heading(self, heading).capitalize()

class OptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): optparse.OptionParser.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) self._override_help = kwargs.get("help")

def format_help(self, formatter=None): if self._override_help: return self._override_help else: return optparse.OptionParser.format_help(self, formatter)