[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:08:43 -0400

"SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

SM> How about "optionparser" or "optionlib"?

BAW> I really think we should expose Optik's main parser class
BAW> through getopt, which we'd make into a package.  I didn't see
BAW> any response to my previous suggestion, does everybody else
BAW> hate it? ;)

SM> I assume this can be done without changing the apparent
SM> interface to the getopt class?  That is, if I import getopt
SM> will getopt.getopt still reference what getopt.getopt does
SM> today?

Yes. Move getopt.py to getopt/_getopt.py and put this in getopt/init.py:

For backwards compatibility

from _getopt import getopt, error, GetoptError

For convenience

from OptionParser import OptionParser

so some such similar incantation (I don't remember off-hand whether the module names should be fully-qualified or not).

-Barry