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

Michael Gilfix mgilfix@eecs.tufts.edu
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:08:15 -0500

After reading this thread, it seems kind of shame we can't do something like:

from parselib import OptionParser

which could match with UrlParser and ConfigParser. But, that being said, I like either Guido's "optparse" or the OptionParser name in the end.

                 -- Mike

On Thu, Nov 14 @ 10:38, Michael McLay wrote:

On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:18 am, David Ascher wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: > >-1 on optlib (sounds like optimization) > > Agreed, especially with the parenthetical comment. > > I don't like argvparse much because this "argv" thing is far from > obvious to newbies. But given those two choices, I'd pick argvparse > over optlib.

I was just about to say the same thing about "argv". How about calling it cmdoptionslib or optionslib. For a newbie just using the word "options" makes it diffcult to locate references using google, etc. On google optionlib had three pages of hits, optionslib had two hits and cmdoptionslib had no hits.

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