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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 30 19:46:28 CEST 2009

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:21, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Brett Cannon <brett python.org> writes:

Obviously if one of the getopt supporters has a better way of doing this then please speak up. I'm not a getopt supporter per se - I'm +1 for argparse - but Opster provides some nice syntax sugar on top of getopt, and can be seen here: http://blogg.ingspree.net/blog/2009/09/14/opster/ I've contacted Steven about a similar approach for argparse, and we're waiting for Yuvgoog's work on argparse(func) to be done to see if there's a feasible similar approach.

I am reluctant to jump on these argument parsing decorators until they have existed outside the standard library for a while and have settled down as I suspect some people want to use annotations to do type conversion/checking, others don't, etc.

-Brett

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