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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:39 am Steven Bethard wrote:

> Ok, sounds like there are a number of supporters for keeping getopt
> around and just deprecating optparse. For those who'd like to keep
> getopt around, I have a few questions:
>
> * Would you be opposed to a note in the getopt documentation
> suggesting argparse as an alternative?

+1

> * Would you like argparse to grow an add_getopt_arguments method (as
> in my other post)?

0

> * If argparse grew an add_getopt_arguments, would you still want to
> keep getopt around? And if so, why?

Simplicity of the learning curve. Using it is as simple as:

getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "a:b", ["alpha=", "beta"])

Does argparse allow anything as simple as that?




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Steven D'Aprano