[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> If you think getopt and optparse should stick around in 3.X, why is
> that? If you think there are things that getopt and optparse do better
> than argparse, could you please give some examples?

I personally consider getopt superior to both optparse and argparse.
Those are terribly verbose in specifying arguments, whereas getopt's
sequence-of-letters is really nice and compact.

Regards,
Martin