Thomas Wouters wrote: > If you want to put more meaning in the argv list, use an option > parser.
I want to put *less* meaning in it, not more. :-) And using an argument parser is often overkill for simple programs. > The _actual_ meaning of each element depends entirely on the > program that's started. For Python-the-language, there isn't any > difference between them. So in your Python programs, you're quite happy to write for arg in sys.argv: process(arg) and not care about what this does with argv[0]? I hardly see how one can claim that there's "no difference" between argv[0] and the rest for practical purposes. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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