[Cython] CmdLine.py refactoring

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Aug 9 08:33:42 CEST 2011


Stefano, 08.08.2011 22:36:
> As a proof of its quality, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSe all ship a python-argparse
> package for older versions of python (<2.7). Given that the module is self-
> contained and as small as 80KB, wouldn't be feasible to add it as a build
> dependency?

Note that that's huge compared to the current command line parser. The 
current implementation doesn't even use 8K, and it's perfectly 
self-contained as well.

Could you try to explain what the advantages of your new implementation are?

Stefan


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