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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bethard
> <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you're only concerned about 2.X, then yes, optparse will *never* be
> > removed from 2.X. There will be a deprecation note in the 2.X
> > documentation but deprecation warnings will only be issued when the -3
> > flag is specified. Please see the "Deprecation of optparse" section of
> > the PEP:
> >
> > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#deprecation-of-optparse
>
> I do not think that optparse should be deprecated at. It is good at
> what it does and its limitations make its starting point less
> confusing for people with different backgrounds that Python.
>
>
 Ref http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#deprecation-of-optparse .

 Considering that optparse will be deprecated like 5 years from now.
 I think this point is moot. The deprecation strategy IMHO is
 perhaps way too conservative. Maybe it should be deprecated
 faster ;)

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--Anand
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