[Python-3000] Move argv[0]? (Re: Unicode and OS strings)

[Thomas Wouters]

On 9/16/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> > Also "argv" sounds more low-level than something like "arguments".
>
> While we're on the subject of argv, I've been wondering
> whether py3k might want to revisit the idea of having
> argv[0] be the program name. In my experience, one almost
> *never* wants to treat argv[0] the same way as the rest of
> the arguments.


-1. If you want to put more meaning in the argv list, use an option parser.
The _actual_ meaning of each element depends entirely on the program that's
started. For Python-the-language, there isn't any difference between them.

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