On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Gisle Aas wrote: > On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:22 , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > >> +1 from me. I sincerely dislike the Perl-esque -m stuff. > > As a Perl/Python guy I have to object to calling the -m stuff Perl-esque. > This is a very Pythonish thing. In the Perl world we never treat modules as > scripts; they are separate concepts written separately and installed in > separate locations. There is no feature of perl similar to the Pythonish -m > stuff.
Yes there is. -m and -M. E.g., the widely advertised perl -MCPAN -e install. It's not identical to python's -m, to be sure, but it's *similar*. James _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
