On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:03:23PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > >Most of the scripts in the bin/ directory send their usage() output to > >sys.stderr. Unfortunately, this makes it difficult to pipe the usage > >output to a program such as more(1) (without redirecting stderr to > >stdout). > > that's standard programming. Feature, not bug. 'vim --help' spits its usage output to stdout, as does 'python -h'.
I can understand errors being printed to syserr (duh), but usage information is more consumer grade, I think. -- Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) :: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
