optparse versus getopt

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-02-10 15:06, Matthew Sacks wrote:
> does anyone have any arguments against optparse vs getopt

As the getopt docs say: "A more convenient, flexible, and powerful alternative 
is the optparse module."

I have found all three statements to be true.

But I've found argparse to be even better. The main reason is that argparse will 
help you parse, verify and generate help text for positional arguments in 
addition to --options.

   http://argparse.python-hosting.com/
   http://argparse.python-hosting.com/wiki/ArgparseVsOptparse

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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