[Python-ideas] sys.args

[Michael Foord]

On 26 July 2013 17:52, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:39:18PM +0300, anatoly techtonik <
> techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > sys.argv is an atavism with not intuitive name, how about sys.args for
> > program arguments only?
> >
> > if not sys.args:
> >   print("usage: ...")
>
> 1. How are you going to handle backward compatibility? I.e., how are you
> going to fix millions scripts out there?
>
>
How will adding another sys attribute break those scripts?


> 2. If you use argparse -- and it's *the way* to parse command-line args --
> you don't need to use sys.argv at all, argparse does all necessary magic
> for you.
>

Sometimes it's overkill. Or you have custom needs that argparse doesn't
handle.

Michael


>
> Oleg.
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