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In Python 3.15, argparse is going to support colourized code snippets in help descriptions and epilogs 🎉!

This is great. Looking forward to it being there. If folks are in and mucking around with argparse, any chance PR 22129 can be included? Colour capabilities plus FlexiHelp would be awesome! github.com/python/cpyth...

github.combpo-12806: Add argparse FlexiHelpFormatter by davesteele · Pull Request #22129 · python/cpythonThis adds the FlexiHelpFormatter class to argparse. It supports wrapping text, while preserving paragraphs. Bullet lists are supported. There are a number of differences, relative to the latest pat...

14/12/25, 6:15 pm0 reposts0 likes

Savannah Ostrowski

@savannah.dev

14 Dec 2025

oooo, thanks for flagging this! This was opened before I started maintaining argparse. Just gave it a review but it looks pretty awesome!

Christopher Trudeau

@trudeau.dev

14 Dec 2025

Yeah, I use the library it is based on all the time