[Python-ideas] sys.args

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Jul 27 06:42:04 CEST 2013


Eric V. Smith writes:

 > Indeed, I read the subject as "sys.argv", and couldn't figure out what
 > was being discussed. So at least one person has already fallen victim to
 > this.

+1  except I assumed the subject spelling was a typo.

If one really feels this needs to be deliberately snafu'd, at least
choosing longer names would minimize the inevitable confusion.

Better than "sys.args" would be "sys.arguments" or "sys.arg_list".
IMHO, etc.



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