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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-10-01 04:07:44 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-10-01 04:07:44 (GMT)
commit4e3a27789a7c182fcf4e7f833b9e2b795c9e3b84 (patch)
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no longer assign into sys; "print chevron" is the way to go
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-rwxr-xr-xDoc/tools/mkhowto13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 8f506c5..5c1d31c 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -64,14 +64,13 @@ PERL_BINARY = "perl"
PYTHON_BINARY = "python"
-def usage(options):
- print __doc__ % options
+def usage(options, file):
+ print >>file, __doc__ % options
def error(options, message, err=2):
- sys.stdout = sys.stderr
- print message
- print
- usage(options)
+ print >>sys.stderr, message
+ print >>sys.stderr
+ usage(options, sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
@@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ class Options:
self.formats = list(self.ALL_FORMATS)
self.dvips_safe = "ps" in self.formats
elif opt in ("-H", "--help"):
- usage(self)
+ usage(self, sys.stdout)
sys.exit()
elif opt == "--iconserver":
self.icon_server = arg