Author pfeldman@verizon.net
Recipients gagenellina, georg.brandl, pfeldman@verizon.net, pitrou, skip.montanaro
Date 2009-10-16.00:03:45
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The current behavior of optparse is contrary to how most of Python
works. optparse should throw a named exception that can be trapped and
identified by the calling program.  Doing a SystemExit is unacceptable.
 I can't believe that this is such a hard thing to fix.
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