Oct. 12, 2000
11:07 p.m.
I have a different suggestion: screw it. getopt keeps creating problems on GNUish systems too, because without the POSIXLY_CORRECT envar set, the GNU getopt shuffles all the "option strings" to the front, making a mess of, e.g.,
python myprog.py -v
The Python source tree already has its own getopt implementation (Python/getopt.c) -- let's rename its contained function to PyOS_Getopt, get rid of the irritating __BEOS__ #ifdef'ery therein, prototype it the way we like, and have Python use that instead on all systems. Every second we've spent tracking down problems with platform-supplied getopts has been a waste of time.
Excellent. After 2.0. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)