[Python-Dev] Hotshot (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 26 13:59:58 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 16:55, Guido van Rossum wrote: > It's not a pronouncement -- it's just a recommendation. I see no need > to start converting existing code to optparse -- but for all new code, > I recommend it.

Maybe the documentation should point people in the direction of optparse (e.g. by moving the optparse section ahead of getopt and putting a note like: This module exists primarily for backwards compatibility - the optparse module is recommended for all new code. at the top of the getopt section).

This sounds awfully close to deprecation of getopt. I don't want to go that far -- I don't want people to worry that getopt might go away. It won't.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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