On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 8:43 AM, Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> wrote:

> It might be:
>
> $ python3 -m gettext

+1

> And:
>
> $ python3 -m gettext.msgfmt

+1
Note that this means gettext will need to become a package.

> And (provided as a shortcut):
>
> $ python3 -m msgfmt

-1. This would mean adding a new top-level module to the standard
library. Let's not pollute that namespace just to provide a shortcut.

Speaking of shortcuts, is there a reason that it should be "python -m json.tool" versus "python -m json" (keep the old probably forever, but have the shorter as a synonym)?

And as a broader question, is there opposition to generating patches to make packages executable that may be useful as a CLI? Would be nice if the UUID or random modules could directly spit something out, e.g. "python -m uuid -4". Counterargument that you could "python -c "import uuid;print(uuid.uuid4())".

Nick