J-Space.dk

Spending the weekend with a laptop without the necessary Python distro and modules, I’ve kept myself at work with a console-based approach to the visitation project. The shell simulation still lies as an excellent basis and has no problems running as a small self-contained command vessel. Right now I’m taking a break whilst looking at different approaches to option parsing. I think I’ve mentioned earlier that the OptionParser module in Python suits very well in principle, but I’ve discovered several innate implementation choices that makes it a bad choice for direct inclusion. One of the primary difficulties is the fact that if a user passes bad parameters to the parse, it will alert the user directly of the error (a formatting issue related to the rest of the script) and exit Python execution (a massive error, as it should continue running internally, allowing the user to attempt another call without having to call the superscript once more).

I could make a subclass, but there are so many unknown variables I’m afraid of handling with it, that I might just as well make my own implementation, albeit far simpler in structure (not much is required, really).

Well, back to work. Coheed and Cambria running in the background. Not bad.