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

Brett Cannon drifty@bigfoot.com
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:29:24 -0800 (PST)

[Guido van Rossum]

I want to start working on an alpha release of Python 2.3. I'd like to be able to release 2.3a1 before Xmas. PEP 283 has a list of things to be done. One of the tasks is to adopt Greg Ward's options parsing module, Optik. I propose to adopt this under the name "options". Any comments?

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The name is basically fine, if just a little vague. But then again I really doubt someone learning programming knows what getopt traditionally means.

But I don't have a better name, so I can't really complain. Best I can do is ArgParser or something to try to tie the name into sys.argv.

And I completely support making sure that it doesn't have a cute name.

-Brett