On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:39 am Steven Bethard wrote: > Ok, sounds like there are a number of supporters for keeping getopt > around and just deprecating optparse. For those who'd like to keep > getopt around, I have a few questions: > > * Would you be opposed to a note in the getopt documentation > suggesting argparse as an alternative?
+1 > * Would you like argparse to grow an add_getopt_arguments method (as > in my other post)? 0 > * If argparse grew an add_getopt_arguments, would you still want to > keep getopt around? And if so, why? Simplicity of the learning curve. Using it is as simple as: getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "a:b", ["alpha=", "beta"]) Does argparse allow anything as simple as that? -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
