On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote: > That's fine. If you want two or three forms of documentation then you > prepare two or three forms of documentation. > > Adding an option to run the default 'help' output through a pager or > display it in a web browser doesn't somehow force you "to compose two > forms of documentation" unless you want two forms of documentation.
The point is that having "help" output at all (beyond either a cursory "see the manpage") implies two forms of documentation (given you already have a manpage), and some people choose not to do that, instead launching directly into the manpage (which implies using a pager) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
