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

Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 10:38:20 CEST 2009

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:59:45AM +0300, Yuvgoog Greenle wrote:

-1 for deprecating getopt. getopt is super-simple and especially useful for c programmers learning python.

+1 for argparse.+1 for eventual deprecation of optparse - optparse and argparse have a very similar syntax and having both is just confusing. tsboapooowtdi

+1 on all of this :-)

It would be a shame to see getopt go but optparse -> argparse seems logical.

Floris

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