New submission from Guido van Rossum :
I read on python-ideas that the tutorial recommends getopt as the simple argument parsing choice, and argparse as advanced. This is silly. We should only promote argparse (unless you want to use raw sys.argv[1:]).
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
keywords: newcomer friendly
messages: 348774
nosy: docs@python, gvanrossum
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Tutorial should not recommend getopt
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9
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Python tracker
https://bugs.python.org/issue37726
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