[docs] [issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Guido van Rossum report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jul 31 00:18:10 EDT 2019


New submission from Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

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 at python
components: Documentation
keywords: newcomer friendly
messages: 348774
nosy: docs at 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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