Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Hoffman
Henry Ludemann wrote: I had actually written most of this module before I became aware > of optparse (it was one of those bash the head against the wall > moments when I found it), I've been there :) -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Henry Ludemann
As far as I can tell, your module has one functional advantage over optparse--it validates arguments as well as options. Functionality wise, that is probably about it. It is more from a seperation of command line / functionality code that I wrote this; that the command line code should be sepera

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Henry Ludemann
* The more I think about it, the more I like that you're basically constructing options to match a function signature. But I can imagine that this might be too restrictive for some uses. It might be worth having an alternate interface that provides an options object like optparse does. It i

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Henry Ludemann
Thanks for the comments... Steven Bethard wrote: Looks interesting, but is it really that different from optparse? In the sense that they both do the same thing, no, not really. But the way they do it is quite different; optparse bases itself on setting variables, while this module is for invoking

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Hoffman
Henry Ludemann wrote: I've been writing an optparse alternative (using getopt) that is at a stage where I'd be interested in people's opinions. Thanks for the work and letting us see it! As far as I can tell, your module has one functional advantage over optparse--it validates argum

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Henry Ludemann wrote: I've been writing an optparse alternative (using getopt) that is at a stage where I'd be interested in people's opinions. Some more detailed comments: * The more I think about it, the more I like that you're basically constructing options to match a func

Re: optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Henry Ludemann wrote: I've been writing an optparse alternative (using getopt) that is at a stage where I'd be interested in people's opinions. Looks interesting, but is it really that different from optparse? I do like the fact that you can specify a type with a conversion

optparse alternative

2005-03-14 Thread Henry Ludemann
I've been writing an optparse alternative (using getopt) that is at a stage where I'd be interested in people's opinions. It allows you to easily creating command line interfaces to existing functions, using flags (which are optional) and arguments. It will automatically print a n