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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Sep 28 17:27:02 CEST 2009

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:39 am Steven Bethard wrote:

Ok, sounds like there are a number of supporters for keeping getopt around and just deprecating optparse. For those who'd like to keep getopt around, I have a few questions:

* Would you be opposed to a note in the getopt documentation suggesting argparse as an alternative?

+1

* Would you like argparse to grow an addgetoptarguments method (as in my other post)?

0

* If argparse grew an addgetoptarguments, would you still want to keep getopt around? And if so, why?

Simplicity of the learning curve. Using it is as simple as:

getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "a:b", ["alpha=", "beta"])

Does argparse allow anything as simple as that?

-- Steven D'Aprano

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