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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 06:47:13 -0400

>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

SM> How about "optionparser" or "optionlib"? I really think we should expose Optik's main parser class through getopt, which we'd make into a package. I didn't see any response to my previous suggestion, does everybody else hate it? ;)

To the contrary. Only problem is how to prevent loading all of optik when one imports getopt.getopt (and getopt.error).

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