# HG changeset patch
# User Franz Glasner <fzglas.hg@dom66.de>
# Date 1739004454 -3600
# Node ID ae9bc3006efc49cbbb5fd315ca8d2333a82ef027
# Parent  d4501acb0a7cacb23e4b73fe8cc28cef1eab33e2
Enhanced help message: describe the "bin-" prefix

diff -r d4501acb0a7c -r ae9bc3006efc cutils/genpwd.py
--- a/cutils/genpwd.py	Sat Feb 08 09:41:44 2025 +0100
+++ b/cutils/genpwd.py	Sat Feb 08 09:47:34 2025 +0100
@@ -54,7 +54,12 @@
                  "bin-base64", "bin-urlsafe-base64", "bin-base32",
                  "bin-ascii85", "bin-hex", ),
         default="web-safe2",
-        help="Select the character repertoire. Default: web-safe2")
+        help="""
+Select from a character repertoire.
+All repertoires that start with "bin-" just encode the output of
+"os.urandom()" with the selected encoder.
+Default: web-safe2
+""")
     aparser.add_argument(
         "req_length", metavar="OUTPUT-LENGTH", type=int,
         help="The required length of the generated output")