What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:30 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> In discussions like these, it would be important to draw from
>>> precedents. Are there commands that have such an option?
>> 
>> It's pretty rare.  It is assumed that Unix uses can type " | less" 
>
> 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?

Discussing command line operation for Windows or OS-X seems rather
pointless.

-- 
Grant