On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Valeriy Pogrebitskiy <vpogrebi@verizon.net> wrote:
 
Something can be done about that. One possible approach could be to use two argument lists (one - 'twistd' arguments, second - application's arguments) and enforce following rule(s): 

As Jean-Paul mentioned, there is a ticket which almost exactly describes your idea: #1490.  In particular, you can read my last comment explaining what that ticket is supposed to be about:

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1490#comment:39

If you'd like to implement what's specified there, we would be happy to receive your patch :).  Making 'twistd foo.py' equivalent to 'twistd run foo' is a trivial afterthought once #1490 is implemented.