[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts (original) (raw)

Gisle Aas gisle at activestate.com
Sat Oct 9 09:02:24 CEST 2010

On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:07 , James Y Knight wrote:

On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Gisle Aas wrote:

On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:22 , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

+1 from me. I sincerely dislike the Perl-esque -m stuff. As a Perl/Python guy I have to object to calling the -m stuff Perl-esque. This is a very Pythonish thing. In the Perl world we never treat modules as scripts; they are separate concepts written separately and installed in separate locations. There is no feature of perl similar to the Pythonish -m stuff. Yes there is. -m and -M. E.g., the widely advertised perl -MCPAN -e install. It's not identical to python's -m, to be sure, but it's similar.

It might look similar but it's not.

If it was similar 'python -mfoo' would be a shortcut for 'python -c "import foo"' and 'python -Mfoo' would be a shortcut for 'python -c "from foo import *". It would also have to be possible to repeat the -c option. Then we could have written the Perl-esque:

python -Mdistutils2.depgraph -c "main()"

There is no way to do something similar to 'python -mfoo ...' from perl. The closest thing I could think of would be 'perl $(perldoc -l foo) ...', assuming a bash-like shell.

Regards, Gisle

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