Steven Bethard <steven.bethard <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Please read the PEP if you haven't, particularly the "Why isn't the > functionality just being added to optparse?" section. I don't believe > it is sensible to re-implement all of optparse. What Ian Bicking is > proposing, I believe, is simpler -- adding a few aliases here and > there so that you don't have to rename so many things when you're > upgrading from optparse to argparse.
Although I am of the people who think working modules shouldn't be deprecated, I also don't think adding compatibility aliases is a good idea. They only make the APIs more bloated and maintenance more tedious. Let's keep the new APIs clean of any unnecessary baggage. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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