[Python-Dev] Call for reviewer!

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:53:46PM -0700, Trent Mick wrote:
>Call it 'supergetopt' and whoever cam 'import supergetopt as getopt'.

Note that there's Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py.  The docstring reads:

Wrapper around the standard getopt module that provides the following
additional features:
  * short and long options are tied together
  * options have help strings, so fancy_getopt could potentially
    create a complete usage summary
  * options set attributes of a passed-in object

--amk