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argparse-manpage-4.6p0

build manual page from python's ArgumentParser object

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Description

ArgumentParser instance -> manual page. Avoid documenting your Python script arguments on two places! This is typically done in an argparse.ArgumentParser help configuration (help=, description=, etc.), and also in a manually crafted manual page. The good thing about an ArgumentParser objects is that it actually provides a traversable "tree-like" structure, with all the necessary info needed to automatically generate documentation, for example in a groff typesetting system (manual pages). And this is where this project can help. There are two supported ways to generate the manual, either script it using the installed command argparse-manpage, or via setup.py build automation (with a slight bonus of automatic manual page installation with setup.py install).

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textproc/argparse-manpage
Package architecture
amd64
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The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
textproc, lang/python
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