Further help improvements:
Show command aliases in 'hg help something', unless in quiet mode.
Show short command description with 'hg help -q something'.
Show global options in verbose mode of command help.
State that Mercurial is a Distributed SCM.
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
import cgitb, os, sys
cgitb.enable()
# sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
from mercurial import hgweb
h = hgweb.hgweb("/path/to/repo", "repository name")
h.run()