kiwi-el8/kiwi/help.py
Marcus Schäfer 41970d3dd4
Cleanup api doc strings
This cleans up and fixes the api documentation for the
public interface of the projects toplevel source code
files and Fixes #697
2018-04-16 16:10:04 +02:00

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# Copyright (c) 2015 SUSE Linux GmbH. All rights reserved.
#
# This file is part of kiwi.
#
# kiwi is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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#
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with kiwi. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
#
import subprocess
# project
from .exceptions import KiwiHelpNoCommandGiven
class Help(object):
"""
**Implements man page help for kiwi commands**
Each kiwi command implements their own manual page, which is
shown if the positional argument 'help' is passed to the
command.
"""
def show(self, command=None):
"""
Call man to show the command specific manual page
All kiwi commands store their manual page in the section '8'
of the man system. The calling process is replaced by the
man process
:param string command: man page name
"""
if not command:
raise KiwiHelpNoCommandGiven("No help context specified")
subprocess.call('man 8 ' + command, shell=True)