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

[Michael Foord]

Collin Winter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 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.
>>     
>
> Do remember that if optparse is deprecated, it will still be available
> for *years*. Code isn't going to suddenly break overnight. Users will
> see this coming far, far ahead of time.
>
> How many more ways do we need to do argument parsing? If argparse is
> added, I'd like to see both getopt and optparse begin their
> deprecation cycles in the same release. Three separate ways of doing
> argument parsing in the stdlib is madness.
>   

+1 to deprecating both.

Michael

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