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Hard disagree. Standardized flag parsing is a blessing on us all, do not want to jave to figure out what flag convention the author picked to implement of the many lile one does with non getopt c programs.

Don't disagree with the principle, there are a lot of trivial pythong deps, but rolling your own argument parsing is not the way

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Again, argument parsing is not that hard most of the time. You dont have to make your own conventions. Thats just weird.

If youve never thought about it, it might seem like you need an off-the-shelf dependency. But as programmers sometimes we should think a bit more before we make that decision.

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