On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:07 , James Y Knight wrote:
> 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*.
It might look similar but it's not.
If it was similar 'python -mfoo' would be a shortcut for 'python -c "import
foo"' and 'python -Mfoo' would be a shortcut for 'python -c "from foo import
*". It would also have to be possible to repeat the -c option. Then we could
have written the Perl-esque:
python -Mdistutils2.depgraph -c "main()"
There is no way to do something similar to 'python -mfoo ...' from perl. The
closest thing I could think of would be 'perl $(perldoc -l foo) ...', assuming
a bash-like shell.
Regards,
Gisle
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