[Python-Dev] Great Renaming - Straw Man 0.2

[Daniel Berlin]

> "select", "signal" aren't UNIX specific.
Huh?
How not?
Can you name a non-UNIX that is providing them?
(BeOS wouldn't count, select is broken, and nobody uses signals.)
and if you can, is it providing them for something other than "UNIX/POSIX
compatibility"
> "getopt" is used for generic argument processing, so it isn't really UNIX
> specific.

It's a POSIX.2 function.
I consider that UNIX.

> And I don't like the name "system" either. But I have no
> constructive proposals about thos either.
> 
> so-i'll-just-shut-up-now-ly y'rs, Z.
> --
just-picking-nits-ly y'rs,
Dan