[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

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[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Thanks mental! All done. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Guido van Rossum added the comment: New changeset 8990ac0ab0398bfb9c62031288030fe7c630c2c7 by Guido van Rossum (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-37726: Prefer argparse over getopt in stdlib tutorial (GH-15052) (#15069)

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Guido van Rossum added the comment: New changeset dcc53ebbff384076b0763c1f842966c189417071 by Guido van Rossum (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-37726: Prefer argparse over getopt in stdlib tutorial (GH-15052) (#15070)

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14816 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15069 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14817 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15070 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Guido van Rossum added the comment: New changeset 2491134029b195d3159a489e1803ee22a7839b41 by Guido van Rossum (mental) in branch 'master': bpo-37726: Prefer argparse over getopt in stdlib tutorial (#15052) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2491134029b195d3159a489e1803ee22a7839b41

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

mental added the comment: It's nice to see the newcomer friendly tag being encouraged :thumbsup: I'm submitting a PR for a doc change (I'd appreciate a review :D). I've replaced any mention of getopt in the tutorial section with the argparse module. Additionally I have added several small

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

Change by mental : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14802 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15052 ___ Python tracker

[issue37726] Tutorial should not recommend getopt

New submission from Guido van Rossum : I read on python-ideas that the tutorial recommends getopt as the simple argument parsing choice, and argparse as advanced. This is silly. We should only promote argparse (unless you want to use raw sys.argv[1:]). -- assignee: docs@python