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gh-142389: Add backticks to stdlib argparse help to display in colour #149384

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Backticks in pdb
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Backticks in json.tool
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Remove default color=True
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Backticks in calendar
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Add backticks to calendar and pickletools (#83)
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Backticks in json.tool
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hugovk committed May 4, 2026
commit 4fe6e68eb8f2ba36c202b7ef670ff6fed2a76bf8
8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions Lib/json/tool.py
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Expand Up @@ -44,21 +44,21 @@ def _replace_match_callback(match):
def main():
description = ('A simple command line interface for json module '
'to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.')
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description, color=True)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
parser.add_argument('infile', nargs='?',
help='a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed; '
'defaults to stdin',
'defaults to `stdin`',
default='-')
parser.add_argument('outfile', nargs='?',
help='write the output of infile to outfile',
help='write the output of `infile` to `outfile`',
default=None)
parser.add_argument('--sort-keys', action='store_true', default=False,
help='sort the output of dictionaries alphabetically by key')
parser.add_argument('--no-ensure-ascii', dest='ensure_ascii', action='store_false',
help='disable escaping of non-ASCII characters')
parser.add_argument('--json-lines', action='store_true', default=False,
help='parse input using the JSON Lines format. '
'Use with --no-indent or --compact to produce valid JSON Lines output.')
'Use with `--no-indent` or `--compact` to produce valid JSON Lines output.')
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('--indent', default=4, type=int,
help='separate items with newlines and use this number '
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