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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Sep 28 17:03:55 CEST 2009

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Hello, I am neutral on the idea of adding argparse. However, I'm -1 on deprecating optparse. It is very widely used (tons of scripts use it), and ok for many uses; deprecating it is totally unhelpful and gratuitous.

You can add me to that camp as well:

+0 on adding argparse -1 on deprecating wide-used modules such as getopt and optparse

Note that the last -1 only applies to the module APIs, not the code in those modules.

If argparse provides an API compatibility layer for getopt and optparse, the original code of getopt and optparse could go without problem, IMHO, leaving only the mostly empty modules together with compatibility layers.

OTOH, as discussed on the stdlib SIG list, those two modules hardly ever require any maintenance, so keeping them as they are is certainly an option as well.

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