[Python-ideas] Poll about -h,--help options

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at 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.
>  --
> anatoly t.
>

I hate typing "-h" only to find that just "--help" works.

I'm pretty sure it's obvious and standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface#Built-in_usage_help


Yuval Greenfield
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