Mark Lodato <its...@hotmail.com> added the comment: I would also like to voice support for including argparse in the standard library. It seems silly to deny a module from being added just because we already have two inferior ones. Argparse adds so many new (and badly needed!) features that it would be very difficult to make a backwards-compatible wrapper around ArgumentParser. It would be much easier, and less error-prone, to leave optparse as-is and just add this module in addition.
If the problem is having a third module clutter up the module list, here's a simple solution: rename the existing optparse to _optparse, rename argparse to optparse, and in (the new) optparse, from _optparse import *. Done. Now you have a backwards-compatible OptionParser (which ought to be deprecated), and the new ArgumentParser. Would this solution work? ---------- nosy: +marklodato _______________________________________ 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
