[stdlib-sig] Pyopt - command-line options that are alot easier than optparse

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

> *Personally* I would like to see argparse in the standard library as  
> I think it is currently the best Python argument parsing library,  
> but that is just my opinion. As we already have two argument parsing  
> libraries in the standard library (getopt and optparse) the addition  
> of a third for the *same* task is highly unlikely.

Huge +1 for argparse.  It exists, seems rock solid, easy to use  
(amazing for an argument parsing library), supports subcommands  
easily, is easy to port from optparse usage, and just full of  
awesomeness.

-Barry

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