[getopt-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Adopting Optik (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave@boost-consulting.com
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:43:50 -0500

Greg Ward <gward@python.net> writes:

On 13 November 2002, Guido van Rossum said:

How about optlib? It's short, un-cute, and follows the *lib pattern used all over the Python stdlib. Oooh, I think I like it! Definitely more than I like cmdline.py or cmdopts.py or anything like that. (I dislike abbreviated words in module names almost as much as Guido dislikes underscores.)

I agree with that sentiment, but find it hard to understand why you'd prefer 'opt' as an abbreviation over the other abbreviations suggested, which are much less-confusable.

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