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/usr/bin/smartypants

Translate plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities

From smartypants 2.0.2-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running smartypants --help (exit 0). permalink

usage: smartypants [-h] [-v] [-a ATTR] [-s SKIP] [FILE ...]

Python with the SmartyPants

positional arguments:
  FILE             files to be processed

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -v, --version    show program's version number and exit
  -a, --attr ATTR  processing attributes (Default: 1)
  -s, --skip SKIP  skip HTML elements (Default: pre,samp,code,tt,kbd,script,style,math)
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpshow this help message and exithelp
-v, --versionshow program's version number and exithelp
-a, --attr ATTRprocessing attributes (Default: 1)help
-s, --skip SKIPskip HTML elements (Default: pre,samp,code,tt,kbd,script,style,math)help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.