[PATCH 5/5] nmbug-status: Shift the script description into a docstring
W. Trevor King
wking at tremily.us
Sat May 10 12:12:49 PDT 2014
This way we can use it as the ArgumentParser description (formatted
with 'nmbug-status --help') and script readers still have it near the
top of the file. I rephrased things a bit to match PEP 257's
summary-line-and-body format [1] while elaborating on the "if
available" Gmane views.
[1]: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/#multi-line-docstrings
---
devel/nmbug/nmbug-status | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
index c9cc745..926d4e4 100755
--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
+++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
#!/usr/bin/python
#
-# Generate an HTML page with the result of one or more notmuch
-# searches, (with links to gmane views of each email if available).
-#
# Copyright (c) 2011-2012 David Bremner <david at tethera.net>
#
# dependencies
@@ -22,6 +19,13 @@
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
+"""Generate HTML for one or more notmuch searches.
+
+Messages matching each search are grouped by thread. Each message
+that contains both a subject and message-id will have the displayed
+subject link to the Gmane view of the message.
+"""
+
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals
@@ -258,7 +262,7 @@ class HtmlPage (Page):
def _slug(self, string):
return self._slug_regexp.sub('-', string)
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
parser.add_argument('--text', help='output plain text format',
action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('--config', help='load config from given file',
--
1.9.1.353.gc66d89d
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