+1 Options are options, arguments are arguments. An optional argument is not an option. It is an argument that can be left out.
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:42 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 01:49:18 -0700 (PDT) > Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Notice that optparse is basically useless in the use case Tim is > > considering (positional arguments) since it only manages options. > > By the way, could you stop naming these "optional arguments", since > positional arguments can be optional as well? It is confusing :) > > Thanks > > Antoine. > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
