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

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 03:22:20 CEST 2009

On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

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.

I've used argparse and really like it. I could also have done with the subcommand support in recent changes to unittest. +1 for inclusion.

+1 as well. I wish I had been able to use this library for a recent
project using sub-commands.

Doug

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