help = [
"1)  The required setups are:",
"    a) setup sam_python",
"    b) setup oracle_instant_client",
"    c) setup cx_Oracle",
"2)  The special purpose arguments are any argument without an equal sign",
"    with either a question mark or in any case the word 'help' and the",
"    argument showquery with a equal sign followed by a boolean value.",
"3)  The all tests are of the general form of name=value for table column",
"    tests and category.type=value for request parameter test.  The name",
"    field are case insensitive.",
"4)  The table column tests are request_id, request_type, request_status,",
"    work_grp_name, username, number_of_events, request_snap_id, comments,",
'    is_archived, data_tier with a default of "thumbnail",'
"    created_on_or_after, created_before, updated_on_or_after",
"    updated_before, history and facility.  The names of the tests are",
"    case insensitive.  Except for history and facility, all the tests are",
"    on values in the work request table.  History is on the associated work",
"    request status histories.  The format of the history test is discussed",
"    below.  Facility is on the facility name associated with the asociated",
"    work request handler.",
"5)  the processing time test, time, takes a colon (:) separated pair of",
"    floating point numbers, either of which may be omitted.  The test is",
"    time >= left and time < right with the respective test omitted if the",
"    number is omitted.",
"6)  The only date formats supported are yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss,",
"    yyyy/mm/dd-hh24:mi:ss (so that it does not have to be quoted) and",
"    yyyy/mm/dd with an implication of yyyy/mm/dd-00:00:00.",
"7)  All defined category.type pairs are supported; only those in use",
"    with work requests will return useful results.",
"8)  Except for the issue of possible performance issues due to a large",
"    number of tests, the program should work with any number of request",
"    parameter, history and facility tests.",
"9)  The comments test supports both equality tests and wildcard tests.",
"    The type of test is determined by the presence of a % in the string.",
"10) The is_archived test accepts arguments of 0, 1 or X (do not care).",
"    If no is_archived test is given, then an implicit is_archived=0",
"    test is automatically supplied.",
"11) showquery=true requests printing of a 'chunked' (into reasonable",
"    sized lines version of the query for work requests.",
"12) history=status,on_or_after,before",
"    search for work requests with a work request status history entry with",
"    that status and effective dates with those limits.  The two commas",
"    are necessary.  The status is required.  The dates are optional and",
"    absence implies no limit of that type.",
"13) status and facility names are checked for validity.",
"14) report=selection provides a restriction the output from the program",
"    The selection values supported are ids (request ids only), events",
"    (event counts only, at the request level and over-all) or summary",
"    (request ids and event counts only).",
]