Commit 397c467c authored by Elena Oat's avatar Elena Oat Committed by R. David Murray

bpo-31330: Clarify that RawTextHelpFormatter collapses repeated newlines. (#3272)

Also provide a solution if the user wants to keep multiple blank lines.
parent 05f01d85
......@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ should not be line-wrapped::
-h, --help show this help message and exit
:class:`RawTextHelpFormatter` maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text,
including argument descriptions.
including argument descriptions. However, multiple new lines are replaced with
one. If you wish to preserve multiple blank lines, add spaces between the
newlines.
:class:`ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter` automatically adds information about
default values to each of the argument help messages::
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