[Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

[James Y Knight]

On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Gisle Aas wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:22 , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> 
>> +1 from me. I sincerely dislike the Perl-esque -m stuff.
> 
> As a Perl/Python guy I have to object to calling the -m stuff Perl-esque.  This is a very Pythonish thing.  In the Perl world we never treat modules as scripts; they are separate concepts written separately and installed in separate locations.  There is no feature of perl similar to the Pythonish -m stuff.


Yes there is. -m and -M.

E.g., the widely advertised perl -MCPAN -e install. It's not identical to python's -m, to be sure, but it's *similar*.

James