[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.3): Add -b and -X options to python man page.

[Nick Coghlan]

On 25 Jun 2013 09:03, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:28:09AM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > 2013/6/24 R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>:
> > > There is one.  -X faulthandler.  I'm sure others would agree about
> > > -O, but that long predates -X.
> >
> > FYI I didn't chose "-X" because it is specific to CPython, but just
> > because it becomes really hard to choose a random letter to add a new
> > option... I prefer long options, but Python only supports the long
> > option --help.
>
> Is that a policy though? Couldn't Python support long options, or is it
> prohibited?

Just impractical. It will likely be more feasible to support them in a
maintainable way once PEP 432 is done and we can lean on the C API more
heavily while processing command line arguments.

Cheers,
Nick.

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