Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> writes:

> It makes command-line parsing and generation of help text much
> simpler.

There's really no excuse for parsing command line arguments by hand in
Python.

> The optparse module is deprecated since Python 2.7, but argparse
> is not available in Python 2.6 (the minimum Python version
> required for building QEMU).

We have a few uses of argparse in the tree.  Are they okay?

We also use getopt in places.  Perhaps we should pick one way to parse
command lines and stick to it.

>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>

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