On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bethard

<steven.bethard@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> If you're only concerned about 2.X, then yes, optparse will *never* be
> removed from 2.X. There will be a deprecation note in the 2.X
> documentation but deprecation warnings will only be issued when the -3
> flag is specified. Please see the "Deprecation of optparse" section of
> the PEP:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#deprecation-of-optparse

I do not think that optparse should be deprecated at. It is good at
what it does and its limitations make its starting point less
confusing for people with different backgrounds that Python.