From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 16:58:10 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add description to the command line help of the argument clinic (GH-8518)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b1~54
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5df4025f42b30aca72f441899b361f748c304c57;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add description to the command line help of the argument clinic (GH-8518)
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diff --git a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
index cb2ded4649dc..9880b3951339 100755
--- a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
+++ b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
@@ -4900,7 +4900,14 @@ def main(argv):
         sys.exit("Error: clinic.py requires Python 3.3 or greater.")
 
     import argparse
-    cmdline = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    cmdline = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="""Preprocessor for CPython C files.
+
+The purpose of the Argument Clinic is automating all the boilerplate involved
+with writing argument parsing code for builtins and providing introspection
+signatures ("docstrings") for CPython builtins.
+
+For more information see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/clinic.html""")
     cmdline.add_argument("-f", "--force", action='store_true')
     cmdline.add_argument("-o", "--output", type=str)
     cmdline.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action='store_true')