How to output newline or carriage return with optparse

[Steven Bethard]

Tim Chase wrote:
>>> 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)?

Yes, your patch will need to include tests and docs as well.  I would 
make the patch against the sources from the optik site (though I didn't 
see a CVS or SVN repository so you may just have to do it against the 
source release files).  Add your tests to test/test_optik.py and your 
doc fixes to doc/reference.txt (or whichever doc/ file seems most 
appropriate).

Thanks for taking this on, BTW.

STeVe