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

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 02:31:00 CEST 2009

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:57:34 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:

I am going to state upfront that I am +1 for this and I encouraged Steven to submit this PEP on the stdlib-SIG. I still remember watching Steven's lightning talk at PyCon 2009 on argparse and being impressed by it (along with the rest of the audience which was obviously impressed as well).

I think argprase is a good improvement over what we have now (getopt and optparse), it's stable, considered best-of-breed by the community for a while (as shown as how many times argparse has been suggestion for inclusion), and Steven is already a core committer so is already set to maintain the code. That covers the usual checklist we have for even looking at a PEP to add a module to the standard library.

FWIW, +1 from IPython: we ship a private copy of argparse as well (we use it in several places but we want the basic ipython to be installable just with the stdlib). Steven was gracious enough to relicense it as BSD at our request:

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2009-September/005537.html

so we could ship this copy without any GPL incompatibilities, but we'd much rather rely on stdlib components.

Best,

f

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list