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Title: Undo deprecation of optparse
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation, Library (Lib) Versions: Python 3.8
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Status: open Resolution:
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: andersk, docs@python, eric.smith, xtreak
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Created on 2019-05-30 19:50 by andersk, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg343997 - (view) Author: Anders Kaseorg (andersk) * Date: 2019-05-30 19:50
The optparse library is currently marked in the documentation as deprecated in favor of argparse.  However, argparse uses a nonstandard reinterpretation of Unix command line grammars that makes certain arguments impossible to express, and causes scripts to break when ported from optparse to argparse.  See the bug report I filed nine years ago:

https://bugs.python.org/issue9334
argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse)

The conclusion of the core developers (e.g. msg309691) seems to have been that although it’s a valid bug, it can’t or won’t be fixed with the current argparse architecture.

I was asked by another core developer to file a bug report for the de-deprecation of optparse (https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/1704/20), so here it is.
msg344023 - (view) Author: Karthikeyan Singaravelan (xtreak) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-05-31 04:55
See also issue25521
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Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:16adminsetgithub: 81284
2019-05-31 04:55:30xtreaksetnosy: + xtreak
messages: + msg344023
2019-05-30 20:43:23eric.smithsetnosy: + eric.smith
2019-05-30 19:50:25anderskcreate