How to output newline or carriage return with optparse

[Tim Chase]

>> ASIDE:  I've started refactoring this bit out in my local
>> source...how would I go about contributing it back to the
>> Python code-base?  I didn't get any feedback from posting to
>> the Optik site.
> 
> You can post a patch to bugs.python.org, but it will probably
> just get forwarded to the optik site because the optparse
> module is supposed to be automatically generated from the
> current optik release. My impression is that optik is mostly
> unmaintained, which makes getting patches applied to optik
> difficult...

What sorts of things are required?  Just a patch?  Or do I also
need to include some sort of collection of doctest/unittests or
documentation patches (and if so, against which documentation
source)?

-tkc