[Python-ideas] Pyopt - an attempt at a pythonic optparse

[Eric Smith]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
>> Maybe "shellargs" or "argparse"?
> 
> I don't think it should have "shell" in it, because the
> module doesn't really have anything to do with the shell.
> The shell is not the only way of launching a program and
> passing args to it.

And the name "argparse" is already used by a popular package: 
http://code.google.com/p/argparse/