[Python-Dev] Re: [getopt-sig] Adding Optik to the standard library

[Greg Ward]

On 30 May 2002, Guido van Rossum said:
> > How about "OptParser" (alternatives: OptionsParser, OptsParser) as
> > an analogue to the existing ConfigParser? They do go together, both
> > conceptually and in practice, after all.
> 
> A decent guideline is to use the dominant class name as the module
> name.  That would be OptionParser.  Then, instead of
> 
>     from optik import OptionParser
> 
> we'd be writing
> 
>     from OptionParser import OptionParser
> 
> I like this!

I think the BDFL has spoken.  I can live with this, although I prefer
lower-case module names.  Whatever.

        Greg
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