On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
> A pity that before argparse replaced optparse, there was no research
> made to gather the output from various console tools to see how
> argparse really saves people from reinventing their solutions.

argparse was adopted because it was a significant improvement over
optparse, not because anyone was under the illusion that it was
perfect.

There'll always be room for additional feature requests, and many of
them won't cause backwards compatibility problems.

Cheers,
Nick.