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diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py index e04138fa..324daf93 100644 --- a/cmd2/cmd2.py +++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py @@ -2944,7 +2944,21 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd): sys.displayhook = sys.__displayhook__ sys.excepthook = sys.__excepthook__ - py_parser = ACArgumentParser() + py_description = ("Invoke Python command or shell\n" + "\n" + "When invoking a command directly from the command line, note this shell has\n" + "limited ability to parse Python statements into tokens. If an opening quote is\n" + "not preceded by whitespace, its closing quote should appear before any\n" + "whitespace. Otherwise whitespace in the parsed tokens will get lost.\n" + "\n" + "Note the opening quote before 'This' in the following commands\n" + 'py print("This " + "is bad")\n' + 'py print("This" + " is good")\n' + "\n" + "If you see strange parsing behavior, its best to just open the Python shell by\n" + "providing no arguments to py and run more complex statements there.") + + py_parser = ACArgumentParser(description=py_description) py_parser.add_argument('command', help="command to run", nargs='?') py_parser.add_argument('remainder', help="remainder of command", nargs=argparse.REMAINDER) |