[Mailman-Developers] usage() going to stderr

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Mon Oct 21 21:20:15 2002


>>>>> "JP" == Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu> writes:

    JP> 'vim --help' spits its usage output to stdout, as does 'python
    JP> -h'.

    JP> I can understand errors being printed to syserr (duh), but
    JP> usage information is more consumer grade, I think.

I could almost be convinced that usage(0) should go to stdout, but I'm
not sure it's worth changing all the scripts.  At least we're
consistent. :)

-Barry