On 1 April 2016 at 16:07, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
2016-04-01 19:41 GMT+02:00 Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel@gmail.com>:
I read recently a proposal to allow md5 hashing doing python -m hashlib md5 filename.
I think it's a great idea, and that can extend this kind of API to other parts of Python such as:
python -m random randint 0 10 => print(random.randin(0, 10))
How many times did you need this feature recently? I don't recall having to generate a random number in a range.
Well...actually, really recently (Tuesday), I did python3 -c "__import__('calendar').calendar(2016)" And just when this thread started here, I recalled it was possible to do just python -m calendar --------- That is an anecdote related with the features in question, and I myself can't decide if it is a point for or against them :-) I suppose they'd be "nice to haves" . But maybe, if instead of sprinkiling 4 - 5 lines of code in "__main__" files everywhere, would not make sense to put all of it in a single place? Maybe shutils itself? So that python -m shutils.uuid , python -m shutils.randint, and so on would each do their thing? js -><-