Eric Smith wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Anyone wanting to replace/compete with optparse (particularly with goals for latter standard library inclusion) would do well to better articulate what they don't like about optparse though. I acknowledge that using optparse the first couple of times can have something of a learning curve, but that's because it is rather powerful.
Note that argparse does provide that justification: http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/argparse-vs-optparse.html
In particular: http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/argparse-vs-optparse.html#upgra...
has a short blurb on why Steven didn't just extend optparse. He tried to, but decided it was easier if he didn't.
And I notice now that this has already been posted to stdlib-sig, which I've joined. I'll continue this over there.