[getopt-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Adopting Optik

[Michael Gilfix]

  After reading this thread, it seems kind of shame we can't do
something like:

  from parselib import OptionParser

  which could match with UrlParser and ConfigParser. But, that being
said, I like either Guido's "optparse" or the OptionParser name in the
end.

                     -- Mike

On Thu, Nov 14 @ 10:38, Michael McLay wrote:
> On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:18 am, David Ascher wrote:
> > David Abrahams wrote:
> > >-1 on optlib (sounds like optimization)
> >
> > Agreed, especially with the parenthetical comment.
> >
> > I don't like argvparse much because this "argv" thing is far from
> > obvious to newbies.  But given those two choices, I'd pick argvparse
> > over optlib.
> 
> I was just about to say the same thing about "argv".  
> 
> How about calling it cmdoptionslib or optionslib. 
> 
> For a newbie just using the word "options" makes it diffcult to locate 
> references using google, etc. On google optionlib had three pages of hits, 
> optionslib had two hits and cmdoptionslib had no hits.
> 
> 
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