On Jun 2, 10:43 am, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> writes: > > pattern, which provides a minimally semi-self-documenting > > approach for positional args, but I've always found the existing > > offerings just a little too much work to bother with. > > I'll give plac a run and see how it behaves. > > After using optparse a couple of times I got the hang of it. Maybe its > docs could be organized a bit better, but it does the obvious things > conveniently once you've figured it out a bit.
Notice that optparse is basically useless in the use case Tim is considering (positional arguments) since it only manages options. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list