using getopt

[Mark Hammond]

Fernando Pérez wrote:


> getopt sucks. Period. Take a look at DPyGetOpt, which implements the 
> Getopt::Long perl facilities. It's very very nice. I've also heard good 
> things about optik, but haven't used it myself.

It looks like optik will be incorporated into the core Python library 
(but possibly inside the getopt module).  However it actually appears, 
using optik now will almost certainly make your future transition to the 
standard library simpler.

Mark.