What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> So they want the PAGER environment variable to specify what pager they
> want...
>
> ...so long as applications don't actually make use of that PAGER
> environment variable to determine the pager they want to use.

This at least does not baldly misrepresent the position being made :-)

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Ben Finney