On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:40 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Is it interesting to know if people expect -h to work as a --help equivalent by default?
As it directly affects best practices of using Python in command line, can we run such poll on python.org? 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.
The argparse and optparse modules in the standard library expose help via both -h and --help by default (and this is in the Python documentation and in the help strings generated by those modules), so I would expect Python users at least to be familiar with both invocations: http://docs.python.org/2/library/optparse.html#generating-help http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html#add-help --Chris
-- anatoly t.
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