[stdlib-sig] should we try to add argparse?

[Michael Foord]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Upfront people need to realize that we might have three argument
>> parsing libraries for a while, but it won't be forever. If we get
>> argparse accepted we would slowly deprecate at least optparse, if not
>> getopt (lat time I tried to ditch getopt for Python 3 some argued that
>> getopt supported stuff optparse didn't),
>>     
>
> +0 on deprecating getopt, -1 on deprecating optparse. Breaking a
> perfectly functional and useful module is stupid.
>
>   

So we're stuck with inferior technology?

Michael

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