[stdlib-sig] should we try to add argparse?

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 18:31 -0300, Collin Winter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Upfront people need to realize that we might have three argument
> >> parsing libraries for a while, but it won't be forever. If we get
> >> argparse accepted we would slowly deprecate at least optparse, if not
> >> getopt (lat time I tried to ditch getopt for Python 3 some argued that
> >> getopt supported stuff optparse didn't),
> >
> > +0 on deprecating getopt, -1 on deprecating optparse. Breaking a
> > perfectly functional and useful module is stupid.
> 
> Do remember that if optparse is deprecated, it will still be available
> for *years*. Code isn't going to suddenly break overnight. Users will
> see this coming far, far ahead of time.

i'd like to write keep writing tools that work across several
python versions and python interpreters.  how is removing
optparse in say 2011 going to help me as a tool writer? 

holger