[Python-Dev] Python long command line options (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu May 4 15:41:54 CEST 2006

Heiko Wundram wrote:

Anyway, back on topic, I personally agree with the people who posted to comp.lang.python that --version (and possibly --help, possibly other long parameters too) would be useful additions to Pythons command-line parameters, as it's increasingly getting more common amongst GNU and BSD utilities to support these command-line options to get information about the utility at hand (very popular amongst system administrators) and to use long commandline options to be able to easily see what an option does when encountered in a shell script of some sort.

And, as this doesn't break any old code (-V isn't going away by the patch), I personally find this to be a very useful change. Your thoughts?

Personally, I'm +1, but wonder if it would be enough to support '--help' and '--version'. We then could cut out the "best guess" code and the code to enable --opt=value.

Georg

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