Own help message using optparse

Question

is possible to make own help message or attach own event on help option using optparse module in Python?

Answer 1

Sure - just use the params to the OptionParser constructor:

import optparse

help_text = """
Hi, this is a really long help message for %prog. 

It's a pretty ace thing. (C)2010 Stuff etc.
"""
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=help_text, version="%prog 1.0 beta")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()