argparse-color-formatter 1.2.1

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.

# argparse-color-formatter
A [`formatter_class` for `argparse`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#formatter-class) 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.

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## Install

```shell
$ pip install argparse-color-formatter
```

## Usage

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

```python
import argparse
from argparse_color_formatter import ColorHelpFormatter

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
formatter_class=ColorHelpFormatter
)
```

## Before & After
ANSI colour escapes using the default `HelpFormatter`:

ANSI colour escapes using this libraries new `ColorHelpFormatter`: