Bugs item #900071, was opened at 2004-02-19 02:14 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by akuchling You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=900071&group_id=5470

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Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simon Dahlbacka (sdahlbac) Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward) Summary: optparse: usage issues

Initial Comment: current documentation states that

usage = "usage: %prog [options] arg1 arg2" parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)

would yield

usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2

however, using python 2.3.2

usage = "Usage: %prog [options] file"

yields:

usage: Usage <yourscript> [options] file"

IMO, it should be possible to replace the whole thing (think i18n)

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Date: 2004-03-21 14:45

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The documentation is correct, but there's a bug in some code that removes the 'usage:' prefix to avoid duplication. It was doing a case-sensitive match, so your example with 'Usage:' didn't remove the doubled word. Fixed in CVS head.

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