[New-bugs-announce] [issue17113] argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter should not delete blank lines

[Roy Smith]

New submission from Roy Smith:

The following code, when run with "--help", omits the trailing newlines from the epilog.  It should just emit the string verbatim.  If the developer didn't want the extra newlines, he/she wouldn't have put them there.


import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
                                 epilog="foo\n\n")
parser.parse_args()

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 181267
nosy: roysmith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter should not delete blank lines
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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