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

Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 17:54:52 CEST 2009

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:28:39AM -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:

Ok, sounds like there are a number of supporters for keeping getopt around and just deprecating optparse. For those who'd like to keep getopt around, I have a few questions:

* Would you be opposed to a note in the getopt documentation suggesting argparse as an alternative?

No, I'd encourage such a note.

* Would you like argparse to grow an addgetoptarguments method (as in my other post)?

That looks nice indeed.

* If argparse grew an addgetoptarguments, would you still want to keep getopt around? And if so, why?

If clearly documented as "Hey, getopt users, check this out!" then I'd be indifferent to the proposed deprecation of getopt.

Regards Floris

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