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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.