[issue6824] help for a module should list supported platforms

2009-09-04 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf added the comment: I never said that I think it is not cross-platform. My point is, it should be good to list down a module's dependency in the python help docs. Like: tempfile Supported Platforms: ALL Exception: On Platform foo, feature tempfile.bar() is not avai

[issue6824] help for a module should list supported platforms

2009-09-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf added the comment: Take "help os" or "help os.fork" for example. WIth the help output that they provide, how am I supposed to know that os.fork is only supported on Unix. We can also go with the assumption that the modules shipped are cross-platform. But

[issue6824] help for a module should list supported platforms

2009-09-02 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Changes by Ritesh Raj Sarraf : -- type: -> feature request ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6824> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue6824] help for a module should list supported platforms

2009-09-02 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
New submission from Ritesh Raj Sarraf : Whey I do a help (python-module), I get the help text as follows: Help on module tempfile: NAME tempfile - Temporary files. FILE /usr/lib/python2.5/tempfile.py MODULE DOCS http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.4/lib/module-tempfile.html

[issue6247] should we include argparse

2009-06-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf added the comment: I'm not sure about the design part, but as a user, I find both to have very similar interfaces. argparse is better because it handles nargs=*. This has long been asked in optparse. Positional arguments is something I wanted recently, and argparse mak

[issue6247] should we include argparse

2009-06-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf added the comment: Thanks for the link. As a user, I see many of the features that argparse brings, to be helpful. Since they are missing in optparse, and since it doesn't look like argparse will be included, should I open new bugs for those features against opt

[issue6247] should we include argparse

2009-06-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf added the comment: >From the author, Steven Berthard: Sorry about the delay - conferences and moving means that I haven't had as much time for argparse as I'd like. Basically, the way things get into the Python standard library is if a

[issue6247] should we include argparse

2009-06-08 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
New submission from Ritesh Raj Sarraf : Shoudl argparse be included in the Python Standard Library. I know we already have getopt and optparse but optparse doesn't support many features easily. (like options without hyphen, nargs=*) Here a little about argparse: argparse: Python command