--- a/bin/ix.py	Fri Apr 16 12:55:05 2021 +0000
+++ b/bin/ix.py	Fri Apr 16 13:15:23 2021 +0000
@@ -5,18 +5,18 @@
 triples from stdin as tab-delimited lines
 or complete cdx index lines.
 
-Note that if no output flag(s) is/are given, the whole WARC record will be output, more efficiently than would be the case if all three flags were given.'''
+Note that if no output flag(s) is/are given, the whole WARC record will be output, more efficiently than would be the case if -whb is given.'''
 
 import sys, argparse, regex
 
-HACK=regex.compile('\[-x\]\n\s*\[length\] \[offset\] \[filename\]')
+HACK_USAGE=regex.compile('\[-x\]\n\s*\[length\] \[offset\] \[filename\]')
 
 class HackFormat(argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter):
   def format_help(self):
     global FOO
     FOO=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter.format_help(self)
-    return HACK.sub('\n             [ ( -x | length offset filename ) ]',
-                        FOO)
+    return HACK_USAGE.sub('\n             [ ( -x | length offset filename ) ]',
+                          FOO)
   
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
   description='''Extract records from warc files given length, offset and file triples.
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
 parser.add_argument('filename',
                     help='name of gzipped Common Crawl WARC-format file',
                     nargs='?')
-
+# Hack the order of optional and positional in the help output
+parser._action_groups.sort(key=lambda g:g.title)
 #parser.print_help()
 pa=parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
 # We have to enforce our own check..