Which, except for optparse, was all on the front page yesterday. So optparse is deprecated. More work I guess apart from auditing extensions for threading.
Life is great in the Python treadmill.
Life is great in the Python treadmill.
It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2.
It was in the "please just use argparse instead" state for a long time, this "just" adds an actual code warning.
getopt has its own brutal simplicity.
feature frozen doesn't sound so bad. It just risks sliding into "we don't want to maintain it because it has known problems". (My opinion: Everything well used has known problems, it's ok.)
You can kill 2 birds with one stone by documenting your scripts while also providing the argument structure / parsing.
After some googling, getopt was chosen due to it's simplicity.