[Python-ideas] sys.args

[Oleg Broytman]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:39:18PM +0300, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> sys.argv is an atavism with not intuitive name, how about sys.args for
> program arguments only?
> 
> if not sys.args:
>   print("usage: ...")

1. How are you going to handle backward compatibility? I.e., how are you
going to fix millions scripts out there?

2. If you use argparse -- and it's *the way* to parse command-line args --
you don't need to use sys.argv at all, argparse does all necessary magic
for you.

Oleg.
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