Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> added the comment: Command line parsing is a basic need, including amongst other standard library modules. argparse has many advantages over optparse (not the least of which is that it has an active maintainer). Several of these features *can't* be added to optparse whilst maintaining backwards compatibility, which is what prompted Steven to create argparse in the first place.
Improvements that I am aware of include: - handling of standard Windows way of specifying options - sub-commands - handling of positional arguments I had to implement my own technique for handling a sub-command in recent unittest changes that would have been much simpler if argparse were in the standard library. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6247> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
