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Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?
Date 2016-05-01 18:08 +0300
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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>:

> On 2016-05-01, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Okay. How is an app supposed to know whether or not to use a pager?
> Command line option.
>
>> How do you expect them to mindread?
> Nope, just recognize '-p' or somesuch.

In discussions like these, it would be important to draw from
precedents. Are there commands that have such an option?

I could only find:

   mysql --pager CMD

which seems sensible but nothing like an industry standard.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with builtin paging.


Marko

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Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 13:53 +0000
  Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-05-01 18:08 +0300
    Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 16:30 +0000
      Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-02 02:36 +1000
        Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 17:04 +0000
          Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-02 11:48 +1000
            Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-05-02 02:34 -0400
        Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-05-01 13:09 -0400
        Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-05-01 13:49 -0400
        Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-05-01 10:54 -0700

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