On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > "select", "signal" aren't UNIX specific. > Huh? > How not? > Can you name a non-UNIX that is providing them? Win32. Both of them. I've even used select there. > and if you can, is it providing them for something other than "UNIX/POSIX > compatibility" I don't know what it provides them for, but I've *used* *select* on *WinNT*. I don't see why Python should make me feel bad when I'm doing that. > > "getopt" is used for generic argument processing, so it isn't really UNIX > > specific. > > It's a POSIX.2 function. > I consider that UNIX. Well, the argument style it processes is not unheard of in other OSes, and it's nice to have command line apps that have a common ui. That's it! "getopt" belongs in the ui package! -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com
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