Optik OptionParse important undocumented option

[nicolascouture]

BPO	1099324

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[nicolascouture]

the add_help_option variable is undocumented in
Python's Library Reference, tho it can be figured by
reading the optparse module, I think it would be
usefull to document it on
http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-generating-help.html.

[jlgijsbers]

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This should probably be addressed by fixing
http://python.org/sf/993601.

[gward]

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Fixed in Optik svn r501.
Ported to Python CVS on 2.4 branch: Doc/lib/liboptparse.tex
rev 1.18.2.2 .

Will port to Python CVS trunk later -- post release of Optik
1.5.1.