shipping python

[Kristen J. Webb]

I am new to python coming from the C/shell side.
We have been experimenting with some code
samples and now I'm looking at some command line
argument processing.  I find

getopt older
optparse new in 2.3
argparse new in 2.7

I search around on some of my client systems and
find lots of people in the 2.4 - 2.6 range.

After some more digging I see that I can
easy_install argparse on my development system.

My question is will I be able to ship this
to a customer?  Can I create .pyc files so
that the customer does not have to install the argparse
module?

If not, and I want to go back into the 2.3+ range,
should I just use optparse?

I guess what I am asking here is are there any
guidelines/recommendations for shipping python
programs to customers?

Thanks in advance,
Kris
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