[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@python.net
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:35:02 -0400

On 12 April 2002, Fredrik Lundh said:

how about "getoptions"? (which implies that "getopt" isn't nearly as complete)

If we're going for a generic-sounding, standard-library-style name, I would prefer "option_parser", because that's the main class in Optik that programmers interact with. Eg.

from option_parser import OptionParser, make_option

can optik be used as a drop-in replacement for getopt?

No. Never even occurred to me that anyone would want such a thing!

    Greg

-- Greg Ward - geek-at-large gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Sure, I'm paranoid... but am I paranoid ENOUGH?