From 260a0a866f557bfc012dc2e2a08a6e047ac1f73b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominic Ricottone <me@dominic-ricottone.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:41:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added help/version text

---
 .gitignore       | 8 ++++++++
 hist/__main__.py | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3be4b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+**/__pycache__
+**/__mypycache__
+**/*.pyc
+build
+
+# `make build` deletes these but the files can persist if it hits an error
+*.egg-info
+
diff --git a/hist/__main__.py b/hist/__main__.py
index 1fdcc12..caff62b 100644
--- a/hist/__main__.py
+++ b/hist/__main__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+VERSION=(1,0,0,)
+
 import sys
 import fileinput
 
@@ -10,8 +12,15 @@ def main():
     _config, _positionals = cli.main(sys.argv[1:])
 
     if "version" in _config.keys():
+        sys.stderr.write(f"hist {'.'.join(str(v) for v in VERSION)}\n")
         sys.exit(0)
     elif "help" in _config.keys():
+        sys.stderr.write(f"Usage: hist [OPTIONS]\n")
+        sys.stderr.write(f"Options:\n")
+        sys.stderr.write(f"  -b=BINS, --bins=BINS  number of bins in histogram [Default: 10]\n")
+        sys.stderr.write(f"  -h, -x, --help        print this message and exit\n")
+        sys.stderr.write(f"  -p, --positive        force scale to be positive\n")
+        sys.stderr.write(f"  -v, -V, --version     print version and exit\n")
         sys.exit(0)
 
     _bins = int(_config.get("bins", 10))
-- 
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