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Option to print help to std out #188

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@cbrochtrup

Thanks for creating Fire. It's a fantastic argument parsing tool.

A minor request: I prefer my help strings to be printed to stdout instead of a console like less. When the output is sent to a less-like program you can't reference the script argument information when trying to type your next command.

The naive way to allow this option is adding a switch so the user can choose to send information console package or to stdout (code below).

console_io.More(text, out=out)

to something like

if print_std:
   print(text, file=out)
else:
   console_io.More(

I don't see an elegant way to set print_std in your source code since you are not accepting contributions to your console package and the Display function is not a method of the Fire class. I don't see a straightforward way to have the user set this display option. Obviously, you know the code better than me so you may know a good way to add this option.

I am using fire version 0.2.1 and have seen this behavior with Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

Thank you for your time!

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