On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: >>> >>> My notes from the session I led: >>> >>> + argparse >>> >>> - Same issues brought up. >> >> For those of us not at PyCon, what were the issues? > > I think they were all related to deprecation of optparse, not anything to do > with argparse itself. I don't recall any specific decision on deprecation, > but my sense was that optparse will be around for a long, long time. There > was also a quick discussion on maybe implementing optparse using argparse, > then getting rid of the existing optparse. Maybe you can comment on that. Maybe the best thing is to make optparse *silently* deprecated, with a big hint at the top of its documentation telling new users to use argparse instead, but otherwise leaving it in indefinitely for the benefit of the many existing users. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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