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

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Mon Sep 28 16:47:38 CEST 2009 

Nick> +1 here as well (although we should definitely find a way to use
Nick> str.format strings instead of %-format ones... come to think of
Nick> it, does even the logging module support str.format style
Nick> formatting in Py3k?)

Assuming argparse currently works with versions of Python < 2.6 I see no reason to make such a change. This would just introduce needless differences between the version delivered with Python and the PyPI version and make it more difficult for the author to keep the two code bases in sync.

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