optparse help text is not easily extensible

[ianbicking]

BPO	878458

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title = 'optparse help text is not easily extensible'
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[ianbicking]

optparse doesn't allow for paragraph/narrative help
text. This text would typically go below the option
listing.

There is currently no place to describe positional
arguments, and this would be a simple way to allow for
that. This could be provided as an extra keyword
argument to OptionParser.__init__, included in the help
in the function OptionParser.format_help.

[nnorwitz]

Since optik is maintained separately from the core, this request should go there. http://sourceforge.net/projects/optik