<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM, anatoly techtonik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com" target="_blank">techtonik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Is it interesting to know if people expect -h to work as a --help equivalent by default?</div>
<div><br></div><div>As it directly affects best practices of using Python in command line, can we run such poll on <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>? I thought that this stuff is obvious, but it appears that it is not, so I'd like to see this usability study - it will be interesting for the Python community to know itself better.</div>
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<div><div>-- <br>anatoly t.</div></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I hate typing "-h" only to find that just "--help" works.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I'm pretty sure it's obvious and standard. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface#Built-in_usage_help">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface#Built-in_usage_help</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Yuval Greenfield</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>