On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

On 05.07.2012 22:24, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

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2012/7/5 anatoly techtonik :

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This makes me kind of sad. You have Python installed. Why can't you just crossplatformly do:

mkdir nacl cd nacl python -m urllib get

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/nativeclient-mirror/nacl/nacl_sdk/up... python update_sdk.py

I'm sure there is already a way with standard python tools. Something along these lines:

python -c "from urllib.request import urlretrieve; urlretrieve('URL', 'update_sdk.zip')" python -m update_sdk.zip

The second command will work if the zip file has a __main__.py. Do you think we need other tools?

The "python -m urllib" (don't think "get" is required) interface certainly looks nice and is similar in style with many of the other __main__ stuff we add to stdlib modules.

Here is the implementation of urllib.__main__ module for Python 3 with progress bar. I've left 'get' argument to make it extensible in future with other commands, such as `test`. While working on this code I've also found the regression which would be nice to see fixed at the same time. http://bugs.python.org/issue10836

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

2012/7/5 anatoly techtonik :

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This makes me kind of sad. You have Python installed. Why can't you just crossplatformly do:

mkdir nacl cd nacl python -m urllib get http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/nativeclient-mirror/nacl/nacl_sdk/up... python update_sdk.py

I'm sure there is already a way with standard python tools. Something along these lines:

python -c "from urllib.request import urlretrieve; urlretrieve('URL', 'update_sdk.zip')" python -m update_sdk.zip

The second command will work if the zip file has a __main__.py. Do you think we need other tools?

Wow! Nice, but still a hack. I doubt many people wouls accept magic files messing in the root dir of the package. The only way it will look good is: python -m update_sdk.zip sdk_update[.py] but I don't know if that's supported. -- anatoly t.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

2012/7/10 anatoly techtonik :

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Wow! Nice, but still a hack. I doubt many people wouls accept magic files messing in the root dir of the package. The only way it will look good is:

python -m update_sdk.zip sdk_update[.py]

but I don't know if that's supported.

-m does work with zip files (with a __main__.py file) and command line arguments are passed. Or did you expect another kind of support?

-m doesn't handle zip files - you just execute them directly: python <script> = source files, bytecode files, directories, zip files (requires a top level __main__.py in the latter two cases) python -m <module> = modules, packages (requires a __main__ submodule for the latter case) The switch is only to tell the interpreter whether you're providing a filesystem path (default) or a Python module name (-m switch). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia