Jorge Godoy wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: > > >>True, but a lot of his point *is* parsing input from the command line. >>Consider the following points paraphrased from his article: >> >>* Don't mix multiple ways of specifying options. (Solved by optparse) >>* If a flag expects an associated value, allow an optional = between the >>flag and the value. (Solved by optparse) >>* Allow single-letter options to be "bundled" after a single dash. >>(Solved by optparse) >>* Always allow -- as a file list marker. (Solved by optparse) >> >>And a lot of the other points are things that are made much, much, >>simpler by optparse, to the point that they become somewhat obvious. > > Take a look at the Perl module, then. You'll see that all of these are also > solved there "automagically".
In that case, I think he just wasted a lot of time in the article, and would have been better off saying "use Getopt::Long." -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
