[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 28 06:09:53 CEST 2009

If you think getopt and optparse should stick around in 3.X, why is that? If you think there are things that getopt and optparse do better than argparse, could you please give some examples?

I personally consider getopt superior to both optparse and argparse. Those are terribly verbose in specifying arguments, whereas getopt's sequence-of-letters is really nice and compact.

Regards, Martin

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