> I would like to be able to comfortably add Python's Tools/scripts > directory to my PATH because there are some useful things in there. You mean you really type, e.g. "logmerge.py", with the .py??? When I have something useful I always just add a symlink to my personal bin directory. > However there is also some crap in there. Would anyone object to my > making some changes to this directory? Depends on what you want to do. > Things I have in mind: > > - move obseleted scripts to, say, Tools/scripts-old or Tools/scripts/old Which ones? > - improve the command line interface of some of the scripts to, for > example, have -h|--help options Sure. > - perhaps improve the internal documentation in some of them Sure. > - trash which.py and provide a better one that actually works on Windows As long as it still works on Unix; I quite like what it does there. Maybe the Windows one should be a different script? I imagine it would be entirely different, right? > I just want to see if this would be controversial before I start > making patches. If you're not sure, it's always OK to post a detailed plan here or a set of patches to SF. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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