What should Python apps do when asked to show help?
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Sun May 1 13:04:06 EDT 2016
On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:30 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> In discussions like these, it would be important to draw from
>>> precedents. Are there commands that have such an option?
>>
>> It's pretty rare. It is assumed that Unix uses can type " | less"
>
> Is nobody except me questioning the assumption that we're only
> talking about Unix users?
Didn't the OP specify that he was writing a command-line utility for
Linux/Unix?
Discussing command line operation for Windows or OS-X seems rather
pointless.
--
Grant
More information about the Python-list
mailing list