[Python-Dev] Proposed new module for the Python library (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee ping@lfw.org
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:11:38 -0700 (PDT)

On 02 August 2001, Eric S. Raymond said:

There is a common `compiler-like' pattern in Unix scripts which is useful for translation utilities of all sorts.

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Greg Ward wrote:

Sounds like a useful tool to have around. I'm not sure the name 'ccframe' conjures up images of the above paragraph, but I'm not sure what name does. This is the hardest sort of software to name!

I too find the name fairly cryptic. "fileargs" perhaps?

But it would be better to think about merging this and fileinput.

-- ?!ng