On Jun 28, 9:56 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com> writes: > > optparse is so old-fashioned. Use plac! > > The OP should be made aware that: > > * plac is a third-party library with (TTBOMK) no prospect of inclusion > in the standard library > > * optparse is in the standard library and has been for many versions > > * argparse is a third-party library that is now accepted for inclusion > in the standard library, intended as a full optparse replacement > <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/>
All valid points. I will just add that plac is based on argparse and nothing else, so it is an external dependency, yes, but not a large dependency. Moreover the core is only 200 lines. People can just grab http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/plac_core.py, and include it in their personal code base, possibly adapting it (I mean for people preferring recipes to external dependencies). Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
