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

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 03:49:09 CEST 2009

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Maybe.  I haven't been following this entire thread, but I don't see much point in making it easy to go from getopt to argparse.

I'm with you on this; specific getopt uses are more likely to be switched to opt/argparse than to shift gradually via hybrid APIs.

The two are so different that I think you're either going to jump all in or not.  Maybe that's just me though as I really don't see much use for getopt any more (even for throwaway scripts).

Heh. I never liked getopt anyway. :-)

-Fred

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