[Python-Dev] Supporting packages on the command line

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Oct 15 13:58:05 CEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:36, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> I'm extremely unconvinced that the semantics of "-m package" or
> "-m package.module" are suitably well thought out to see it in b1.
> 
> If a single compelling way of making it work can be seen in the
> next week, _maybe_ we could sneak it into b2, but I'm really not
> hopeful.

Okay, based on the discussions so far, I'm going to have to agree. 
While I do think it's a very useful feature, it's more important to do
it right than to do it right now.  Which means it should probably go
through the full PEP treatment.

-Barry

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