[getopt-sig] ObjectCLI

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:51:04 -0500


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> s.keim wrote:
>> Isn't it something that is already supported by the standard library ?
>> http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-cmd.html
> 
> No.  cmd is for writing interactive command interpreters.  ObjectCLI is 
> for writing non-interactive command-line parsers.

Oops, just to clarify: ObjectCLI is for writing command line utilities 
and applications. (ObjectCLI *is* the parser, and you can certainly 
write an interactive utility.)

Shane