[Doc-SIG] Re: reST: Option lists and descriptive lists

[David Goodger]

Tony J Ibbs (Tibs) <tony@lsl.co.uk> wrote on 2001-08-13 05:45:
> I'm still uncomfortable with the Unix specificity of that.
...
> Would you also allow::
> 
>     /a    Output all
>     /b    Output both (this description is
>           quite long)
> 
> which is more natural on Windows and VMS?

Hadn't thought of it, not being Windows-centric, but I don't see why
not. I was aiming to support the syntax that getopt.py supports. Not
that it matters, but is there a Python module supporting Windows-style
"/" options?

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