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[Python-Dev] Re: getopt() prototype [was: checkin-message of something or other] [Python-Dev] Re: getopt() prototype [was: checkin-message of something or other]Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:07:28 -0500
> I have a different suggestion:  screw it.  getopt keeps creating problems on
> GNUish systems too, because without the POSIXLY_CORRECT envar set, the GNU
> getopt shuffles all the "option strings" to the front, making a mess of,
> e.g.,
> 
> python myprog.py -v
> 
> The Python source tree already has its own getopt implementation
> (Python/getopt.c) -- let's rename its contained function to PyOS_Getopt, get
> rid of the irritating __BEOS__ #ifdef'ery therein, prototype it the way we
> like, and have Python use that instead on all systems.  Every second we've
> spent tracking down problems with platform-supplied getopts has been a waste
> of time.

Excellent.  After 2.0.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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