On 25 Jun 2013 09:03, "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:28:09AM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote: > > 2013/6/24 R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>: > > > There is one. -X faulthandler. I'm sure others would agree about > > > -O, but that long predates -X. > > > > FYI I didn't chose "-X" because it is specific to CPython, but just > > because it becomes really hard to choose a random letter to add a new > > option... I prefer long options, but Python only supports the long > > option --help. > > Is that a policy though? Couldn't Python support long options, or is it > prohibited?
Just impractical. It will likely be more feasible to support them in a maintainable way once PEP 432 is done and we can lean on the C API more heavily while processing command line arguments. Cheers, Nick. > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > 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/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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