From e89b35dd2b87e85978b91e3e2dbdea1fc76d6be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:18:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [3.6] bpo-31330: Clarify that RawTextHelpFormatter collapses
 repeated newlines. (GH-3272) (GH-3429)

Also provide a solution if the user wants to keep multiple blank lines.
(cherry picked from commit 397c467c49385023de36411194d381ac993bae1a)
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 Doc/library/argparse.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 4530304817..9411bbd4ac 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ should not be line-wrapped::
     -h, --help  show this help message and exit
 
 :class:`RawTextHelpFormatter` maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text,
-including argument descriptions.
+including argument descriptions. However, multiple new lines are replaced with
+one. If you wish to preserve multiple blank lines, add spaces between the
+newlines.
 
 :class:`ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter` automatically adds information about
 default values to each of the argument help messages::
-- 
2.50.1