[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module (original) (raw)
Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Sep 30 02:56:22 CEST 2009
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On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
getopt is very procedural - you define a minimal amount regarding the options you accept, but then do the bulk of the command line processing yourself
Right, and we shouldn't underestimate the cognitive load this
imposes. All those twisty if-conditions are de-facto part of getopt's
API.
-Barry
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