[Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

[Olemis Lang]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I thought that one of the following approaches would be considered :
>>>
>>>  1 - let optparse remain in stdlib (as is or not ...)
>>>  2 - re-implement optparse (i.e. a module having the same name ;o) using
>>>    argparse
>>>
>>> isn't it ?
>>
>> Please read the PEP if you haven't, particularly the "Why isn't the
>> functionality just being added to optparse?" section. I don't believe
>> it is sensible to re-implement all of optparse.
>>
[...]
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm still not sure it's a good idea, for exactly
>> the reason Ian points out - "having another class like OptionParser
>> also feels like backward compatibility cruft".
>
> People also need to remember the very conservative deprecation path for
> optparse proposed in the PEP - never deprecated in 2.x,

So, I don't get it . What's the difference between this and the first
option I mentioned above ? I am probably missing the obvious but if
optparse will be «never deprecated in 2.x» then what's gonna happen ?
The only options I see are mentioned above (and I thought it was the
first one ;o) :

  - If (1) is the right one then -0 for considering backwards compatibility
  - If (2) is the right one then IMO, +1 for adding «further backwards
    compatibility cruft» in a separate module and remove it in Python 3.5

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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