[Python-Dev] trace.py and the obscurity of Tools/scripts/ (was: Unittest list)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:52:55 -0400


Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > Probably so.  I wonder if it makes sense to put them in a package
 > (e.g. a `scripts' package)?

Not sure about the package, but I like having the bulk of each script
be in some importable module.  Giving it a main() that takes an argv,
using sys.argv if None is passed, and returning the return code for
the shell is very attractive.


  -Fred

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