argparse-color-formatter 1.0.0

a ``formatter_class`` for ``argparse`` that deals with ANSI colour escapes. Specifically, this formatter does not count escape characters as displayed characters when wrapping ``argparse``'s help text into the terminal.

Install

$ pip install argparse-color-formatter

Usage

Pass in argparse_color_formatter.ColorHelpFormatter to a new argument parser as formatter_class

import argparse
from argparse_color_formatter import ColorHelpFormatter

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    formatter_class=ColorHelpFormatter
)