[Tutor] inserting path to open a file from a variable

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/05/2015 01:16, Felix Dietrich wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> optparse is deprecated, from
>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/optparse.html "Deprecated since
>> version 3.2: The optparse module is deprecated and will not be
>> developed further; development will continue with the argparse
>> module".  argparse is here
>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
>
> True, but the /optparse/ module does not appear to be part of Python
> 2.6. ("new in version 3.2")

If you mean argparse you're correct, but it's in 2.7.  My point is that 
there's not much use writing code now with a deprecated module, 
especially if you want to move onward and upward to python 3.4 or even 
3.5 in the future and get all the new batteries :)

>
> richard kappler <richkappler at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> This is python 2.6.6 running on a Linux machine.
>

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Mark Lawrence