> Also "argv" sounds more low-level than something like "arguments".
While we're on the subject of argv, I've been wondering whether py3k might want to revisit the idea of having argv[0] be the program name. In my experience, one almost *never* wants to treat argv[0] the same way as the rest of the arguments. Putting the program name into argv[0] is a neat trick in C that's relatively harmless, because it's just as easy to start iterating from 1 than 0, but in Python it makes all argument-processing code more complicated than necessary. It also provides a nasty trap for the unwary, as I discovered one day when I wrote a program for deleting files that deleted itself the first time I ran it. :-) Changing the existing behaviour of argv would probably be too disruptive, so how about relegating argv to a low-level detail and providing something else for everyday use that omits argv[0]? sys.arguments would sound quite nice for that. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com