On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > * The "magic" symbol is somewhat self-documenting - it implies a question. > Using --which adds another special case that people would need to > understand isn't passed to Python. IOW, I like that there is only 1 special > option and that one special option can be expressed in the form of a > question.
This may be a difference in what we're used to. To me, the "-?" is strongly associated with "-h" and "--help", whereas "--which" maps directly to the *nix "which" command: $ which python /usr/bin/python As far as simplicity and extensibility go, I would treat "--which" the way most programs treat "--help" and "--version" - they can appear anywhere on the command line and completely change the expected output of the command: $ python -Ei --version -c "This is never evaluated" Python 2.7.1 So I don't actually see any particularly *new* design decisions to be made in relation to a "--which" option - it's just a workaround for the lack of a native 'which' equivalent on Windows, and it behaves like Python's own "--version" option. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
