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

[Michael Foord]

Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>   
I was talking about in the standard library.

Michael

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