[Python-Dev] Optik (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:30:13 -0400

I've thought about it some more, and I don't like the autoloader business one bit. I expect it will trip up auxiliary tools, introspection, etc.

I don't think that names in the toplevel namespace are such a scarce resource that we can't add a module or package there. How about calling the module OptionParser, since that seems to be the main class exported by Optik? I really don't care if it is a module or a package, as long as this works:

from OptionParser import OptionParser

op = OptionParser(...suitable args...)

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