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

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 30 18:21:52 CEST 2009

Brett Cannon <brett python.org> writes:

Obviously if one of the getopt supporters has a better way of doing this then please speak up.

I'm not a getopt supporter per se - I'm +1 for argparse - but Opster provides some nice syntax sugar on top of getopt, and can be seen here:

http://blogg.ingspree.net/blog/2009/09/14/opster/

I've contacted Steven about a similar approach for argparse, and we're waiting for Yuvgoog's work on argparse(func) to be done to see if there's a feasible similar approach.

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