As long as this doesn’t break the CLI interface, +1 from me; less dependencies are better and valuable work!
> On Sep 29, 2022, at 6:52 AM, Berenguer Blasi <berenguerbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 > > On 29/9/22 15:42, Derek Chen-Becker wrote: >> +1 from me. It sounds like a good opportunity! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Derek >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 6:26 AM Brad <bscho...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bscho...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> The Python standard library introduced argparse a decade ago in Python 2.7 >> to replace optparse as described in PEP-0389 >> <https://peps.python.org/pep-0389/> for command line argument parsing. >> Optparse is no longer maintained, and has been deprecated since Python 3.2, >> although there are no plans to remove it from the std library. >> >> As part of modernizing CQLSH, I have proposed in CASSANDRA-17914 that we >> upgrade from optparse to argparse. Argparse is part of the Python standard >> library and has been since 2011 so this upgrade involves no new library >> dependencies and should be self-contained and transparent. >> >> The primary benefit is removing dependencies on deprecated classes and >> components. Consensus seems to be that argparse has more meaningful help >> messages and is more intuitive to use. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Brad Schoening
