Hi all -- I would like to propose adding my Optik module to the standard library. Optik is the all-singing, all-dancing, featureful, extensible, well-documented option-parsing module that I have always wanted. Now I have it, and I like it -- so much that I'd like it to just always be there whenever I fire up Python (2.3 or greater, of course). Please take a look at http://optik.sourceforge.net/ for the whole story, including all the documentation and code via CVS. Note that Optik is currently distributed as a package with three modules; it's a hair over 1000 lines of text (563 lines of code), though, so could easily be munged into a single file if that's preferred for the standard library. Two good arguments for adding Optik to the standard library: * David Goodger wants to use it for the standard doc-processing tools * I'd like to use it in the Distutils (and ditch distutils.fancy_getopt) Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.