On 5/1/2016 9:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2016 03:04 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano <st...@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?
*cough* I'm the OP, and no I didn't.
Obviously I'm a Linux user myself, but I'm presumptuous enough to hope that
when I release the utility publicly[1], others may find it of some small
use. Including Windows users.
[1] Real Soon Now.
As a Windows user in recent years, I expect -h to give me a list of
options, hopefully with some annotation beyond the bare bones, that give
the signature of the command (regarding it as a function call). 'python
-h' is pretty bare bones. 'python -m test -h' is much better. I expect
both to tell me how to properly pass a file argument. I don't expect
either to tell me how write a python or unittest file. I use the manual
for this.
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