What should Python apps do when asked to show help?
Irmen de Jong
irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl
Thu Apr 28 13:08:14 EDT 2016
On 28-4-2016 18:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> but I was thinking of doing both: give my application a subcommand or an
> option to display help directly in a pager, while -h and --help print to
> stdout as normal.
>
> What do you think? Too clever?
An idea: Use just one help option, then
if sys.stdout.isatty():
#....use a pager to display help text
else:
#....print all help text normally
Irmen
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