[Python-checkins] [Python-Dev] cpython (3.3): Add -b and -X options to python man page.

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:14 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:40:13 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:20 PM, senthil.kumaran
>> > <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>> >>  .TP
>> >> +.BI "\-X " option
>> >> +Set implementation specific option.
>> >
>> >
>> > Should probably be "Set the implementation-specific option."
>>
>> Is there anyone respecting this notation? (I know pypy does not, it
>> uses --jit and stuff)
>
> CPython does.  We introduced it for ourselves, it is up to other
> implementations whether or not to use it, or use something else.
>
> --David

you mean "CPython does not have any implementation-specific options"?
I would claim -O behavior should be implementation-specific since it's
nonsense in the optimizations sense, but other than that, it does not
seem that there is any -X options?