Hello list, What started as a joke yesterday in the Bug Tracker and on Twitter now evolved into a serious consideration. In case the only reason for optparse to go away is that it does not have a maintainer I would take over that task.
In fact I would also implement missing features based on real-world needs. That would most likely mean that some of the changes in argparse would end up in optparse as well. Furthermore I would release a Python-independent version on PyPI for compatibility with older Python versions. I would take over this task if the following criteria are met: - argparse would not enter the standard library - I'm allowed to modernize optparse after a discussion with python-dev in a backwards compatible way. - I'm allowed to refactor the code - make the i18n support of the module more pluggable which would allow specifying a custom translations instance instead of using the global gettext function. Regards, Armin _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
