There's currently no easy way to do this. Feel free to file a feature
request at bugs.python.org.
If you're adventurous, you could try fiddling around with the
undocumented formatter API. Take a look at the definition of
format_help() and you can see how groups are added. Maybe you can
massage that into doing what you want?
Steve
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Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?
Did Steve tell you that?
--- The Hiphopopotamus