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

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:03:39 -0500

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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.

+1

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