[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Steven Bethard]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> and the fact that argparse has been in the wild for 4.5 months.

Just to set the record straight, argparse's first release was in October 2006:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2006-October/005304.html

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> It turned 1.0 in July and the first release (on Google Code) was on
> April 1st this year.

There were many releases on python-hosting.com before argparse moved
repositories. A quick Google for "argparse release" would have turned
these up for you.

> how much traction can you get in those few months and how likely are
> API changes to the code in a 1.1 or 2.0 release ?

This is now completely off topic, but the the core APIs (e.g.
add_argument, parse_args) haven't really changed since 0.1, and there
haven't really been any backwards incompatible changes since about 0.5
(January 2007), and they were preceded by deprecations as in most
Python modules.

Steve
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