On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
s...@pobox.com wrote:I have never completely wrapped my brain around optparse. Getopt I just remember.Seems to me that optparse and argparse are fairly similar in their APIs, and that argparse isn't going to be significantly easier to fit in one's brain than optparse.
There's no question it is if you're doing more complicated stuff, like extending it or using subcommands. After I converted my code from optparse to argparse, I ended up with less stuff that was more regular and easier to understand. It convinced me that argparse is a win.
-Barry
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