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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:15:38 -0500

In the choice between optlib and argvparse, argvparse wins by a landslide. But I came up with a better one: optparse! This addresses the argument by several Davids that argv is obscure to newbies. I think it doesn't sound like optimization like optlib does.

optparse also seems to be what Ruby uses (it even has an OptionParser class :-), and I found an optparse.tcl on the net too.

I also note that the recommended rhythm looks better as

from optparse import OptionParser

than as

from argvparse import OptionParser

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)