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

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 18:44:23 CEST 2009

On 2009-09-29 18:38 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:

I don't really use GUI libraries, so I wouldn't be able to come up with such an example. I'd also rather not make API changes based on speculative use cases, so before I spend time documenting these things, I'd really like to hear from someone who has already, say, used getopt or optparse in conjunction with a GUI library, and what feedback they have about that.

I use argparse (and previously optparse) frequently to handle the command line arguments of GUI apps. I tend to use them in the same way as CLI programs, though, since I usually only use command line arguments when starting the GUIs from the terminal. I am blissfully unaware of the problems Paul mentioned about Windows GUI-mode programs. I'm not sure what would make a program "GUI-mode" or not. Certainly, I have written Python programs that use wxPython and PyQt on Windows that print to stdout/stderr, and they appear to work fine.

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