On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bethard > <steven.beth...@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 ;) -- --Anand
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