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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 31 May 2002 10:47:19 -0400


> I strongly prefer OptionParser, because that's the main class; it's the
> one that's always used (ie. directly instantiated).  There are always
> instances of Option, OptionValues, and the various exception classes
> floating around -- but most Optik applications don't have to import
> those names directly.
> 
> So in spite of David G.'s -1 on OptionParser, that's what I'm going
> with...

Great!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)