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

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/9/10 Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk>:
> 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?

No, that's never been the case. Download and install argparse.



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Regards,
Benjamin