[Python-Dev] Markup of command-line options in Python's .rst documentation (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 05:52:42 CEST 2010

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote: ..

However, I wonder what this means for backwards compatibility. Is it valid to switch trace.py to use the newer command-line argument parsing module that's only available in the newest versions of Python? I guess it could be since trace.py is stdlib which always arrives with its relevant version of Python. This would mean, however, that trace.py would be incompatible between 2.7 (argparse) and 2.6 (which doesn't have argparse), but I'm not sure how much of a problem this is.

As long as 3.x trace supports all command line options and switches that 2.x does, I don't see any compatibility problems. Adding more options or using new language or library features in implementation should be fine.

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