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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
