On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@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) _______________________________________________ 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