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GeezerVison is showing github.com — gh-142389: Add backticks to stdlib argparse help to display in colour by hugovk · Pull Request #149384 · python/cpython

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Companion to #149375.

Also remove the now-redundant color=True, it's the default since 3.14.

  • Issue: Add support for colorizing code examples in argparse description/epilog #142389

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hugovk added 20 commits May 5, 2026 00:28
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@hugovk hugovk changed the title gh-142389: Add backticks to stdlib argparse help to display in colour. gh-142389: Add backticks to stdlib argparse help to display in colour May 4, 2026
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Add support for colorizing code examples in argparse description/epilog #142389
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gh-142389: Add support for backtick colorisation in argparse help text #149375
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Overall, LGTM! Thanks for doing this cleanup. I think there are a couple more spots where we can add the backticks: hugovk#83

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Add backticks to calendar and pickletools (#83)
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Documentation build overview

📚 cpython-previews | 🛠️ Build #32533857 | 📁 Comparing cfc6a00 against main (53a7f76)

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