On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:28, Jesse Noller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Upfront people need to realize that we might have three argument >> parsing libraries for a while, but it won't be forever. If we get >> argparse accepted we would slowly deprecate at least optparse, if not >> getopt (lat time I tried to ditch getopt for Python 3 some argued that >> getopt supported stuff optparse didn't), out of the standard library >> and toss them into PyPI for those who refuse to switch. The standard >> library might not evolve a lot, but it isn't dead or in stone. >> >> But before this can happen, people need to have a general consensus >> that I should bug Steven about contributing as it will require a PEP >> from him. Steven already has commit privileges to maintenance from him >> will not be a problem. >> >> So if you want this to actually happen and for me to start talking to >> Steven just reply to this email w/ a vote. >> >> I am +0 > > More fuel for the pep(fire): > > http://blogg.ingspree.net/blog/2009/09/14/opster/
It's only more fuel in terms of acknowledging there is another approach using decorators. But since no library that takes that approach is near to being considered best-of-breed by the community or is as stable as argparse I don't consider it that big of a deal. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
