[Python-Dev] some notes from the first part of the lang summit

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Feb 21 14:45:11 CET 2010


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> My notes from the session I led:
>>>
>>> + argparse
>>>
>>>   - Same issues brought up.
>>
>> For those of us not at PyCon, what were the issues?
>
> I think they were all related to deprecation of optparse, not anything to do
> with argparse itself. I don't recall any specific decision on deprecation,
> but my sense was that optparse will be around for a long, long time. There
> was also a quick discussion on maybe implementing optparse using argparse,
> then getting rid of the existing optparse. Maybe you can comment on that.

Maybe the best thing is to make optparse *silently* deprecated, with a
big hint at the top of its documentation telling new users to use
argparse instead, but otherwise leaving it in indefinitely for the
benefit of the many existing users.

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