[issue45660] Freeze the argparse module.

[Eric Snow]

New submission from Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>:

(See https://bugs.python.org/issue45020#msg402116.)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:56 PM Raymond Hettinger <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> It would be nice to freeze argparse.py and its dependencies.  For command-line tools, startup time is important.

This would include freezing the modules that argparse depends on, etc.

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components: Build
messages: 405231
nosy: FFY00, eric.snow
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Freeze the argparse module.
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.11

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