What is the best way to print the usage string ?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

There's been a good lot of response to the problem originally stated,
but no-one's pointed out that:

>print reduce(lambda x, y: x + ':' + y, sys.argv[1:])

is a confusing (and slow) way of writing:

print ':'.join(sys.argv[1:])

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