<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Ewing</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Also "argv" sounds more low-level than something like "arguments".<br><br>While we're on the subject of argv, I've been wondering<br>whether py3k might want to revisit the idea of having<br>
argv[0] be the program name. In my experience, one almost<br>*never* wants to treat argv[0] the same way as the rest of<br>the arguments.</blockquote><div><br>-1. If you want to put more meaning in the argv list, use an option parser. The _actual_ meaning of each element depends entirely on the program that's started. For Python-the-language, there isn't any difference between them.
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