On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bethard
> If you're only concerned about 2.X, then yes, optparse will *never* beI do not think that optparse should be deprecated at. It is good at
> 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
what it does and its limitations make its starting point less
confusing for people with different backgrounds that Python.