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

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On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 13:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > 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?

We've been talking about pydoc instead of the OP's program for a while
now.

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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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