[Python-Dev] Small additions to optparser

[Edward Loper]

[Gustavo Niemeyer wrote]
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have two small customizations I've used in most projects I've
>> plugged optparse into. [...] 

[Dan Gass wrote]
> It would be nice to have a way for the white space to be cleaned up in 
> the help string.  This would be useful when using multiline triple 
> quoted strings to pass in help text to the option parser and you want to 
> indent the help text on each line so the source code reads well.

There's already code to do this type of clean-up in inspect.getdoc(). 
Maybe it could be copied (or moved out of getdoc() into its own function 
and reused).

-Edward