[Python-Dev] Call for reviewer! (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:19:23 -0400

There are 5 open & related patches to getopt.py: 101106 thru 101110 inclusive. Who wants to review these? Fair warning in advance that Guido usually hates adding stuff to getopt, and the patch comment

I examined the entire 1.6b1 tarball for incompatibilities,
and found only 2 in 90+ modules using getopt.py.

probably means it's dead on arrival (2+% is infinitely more than 0% <0.1 wink>).

On that basis alone, my natural inclination is to reject them for lack of backward compatibility. So let's get some votes and see whether there's sufficient support to overcome that.