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

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:14, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> 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.

Fine, but that doesn't say anything about whether you think adding
argparse is a good idea.

-Brett