I don't know who proposed to rip out getopt. I definitely want to keep it. It has plenty of uses where optparse would be overkill.
--Guido On Dec 6, 2007 5:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I won't argue that getopt should be left in for Python 3, however it is > still widely used. I generally use it for simple tasks. (My brain must > have a getopt usage template in there somewhere. I still find it much > easier to whip out getopt usage. I always have to consult the optparse > docs.) It should probably at least go on PyPI. > > Likewise, I suspect bsddb185 will still have some occasional uses, at least > on BSD Unix variants. On my Mac /etc/pwd.db and /etc/mail/*.db are 1.85 > hash files. Maybe also a candidate for PyPI. > > Should the PEP acknowledge this route to module sainthood for certain > modules? > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
