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

[Doug Hellmann]

On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

> Brett Cannon wrote:
>> I am going to state upfront that I am +1 for this and I encouraged
>> Steven to submit this PEP on the stdlib-SIG. I still remember  
>> watching
>> Steven's lightning talk at PyCon 2009 on argparse and being impressed
>> by it (along with the rest of the audience which was obviously
>> impressed as well).
>>
>> I think argprase is a good improvement over what we have now (getopt
>> and optparse), it's stable, considered best-of-breed by the community
>> for a while (as shown as how many times argparse has been suggestion
>> for inclusion), and Steven is already a core committer so is already
>> set to maintain the code. That covers the usual checklist we have for
>> even looking at a PEP to add a module to the standard library.
>>
>>
>
> I've used argparse and really like it. I could also have done with  
> the subcommand support in recent changes to unittest.
>
> +1 for inclusion.

+1 as well.  I wish I had been able to use this library for a recent  
project using sub-commands.

Doug