On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 05:39:31PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > It makes command-line parsing and generation of help text much > simpler. > > The optparse module is deprecated since Python 2.7, but argparse > is not available in Python 2.6 (the minimum Python version > required for building QEMU). > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > --- > Changes v1 -> v2: > * Use optparse module, as the minimum Python version for building > QEMU is 2.6 > * Reported-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> > * Suggested-by: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com>
I no longer suggest this approach :-) I'd prefer if we just bundled a copy of 'argparse.py' in the local scripts/thirdparty directory, and add that to the python import path, if the system python lacks argparse. eg if we had $QEMU-GIT/scripts/thirdparty/argparse.py you can use: try: import argparse except: import os, sys sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../thirdparty")) import argparse Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|