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

[Fred Drake]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> Maybe.  I haven't been following this entire thread, but I don't see much
> point in making it easy to go from getopt to argparse.

I'm with you on this; specific getopt uses are more likely to be
switched to opt/argparse than to shift gradually via hybrid APIs.

> The two are so
> different that I think you're either going to jump all in or not.  Maybe
> that's just me though as I really don't see much use for getopt any more
> (even for throwaway scripts).

Heh.  I never liked getopt anyway.  :-)


  -Fred

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