New submission from Keith Gray: The documentation for optparse states it has been deprecated in favor of argparse since 2.7. However, the library documentation for difflib still uses optparse in the example. https://docs.python.org/2/library/difflib.html#a-command-line-interface-to-d... https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/difflib.html#a-command-line-interface-to... I am willing to update the documentation if there is agreement that it is needed. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 242347 nosy: docs@python, idahogray priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Documentation for difflib uses optparse type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24109> _______________________________________