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

[Michael Foord]

holger krekel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 18:31 -0300, 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.
>>     
>
> i'd like to write keep writing tools that work across several
> python versions and python interpreters.  how is removing
> optparse in say 2011 going to help me as a tool writer? 
>   

argparse works with current versions of Python, it will just no longer 
be an additional dependency on recent versions once we include it.

If you are determined to stick with optparse it becomes an external 
dependency if you are using a version of Python that doesn't include it.

Michael

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