trevorld/r-argparse

question: should I use argparse instead of optparse going forward

ssh352 opened this issue · 1 comments

ssh352 commented

optparse in python is deprecated.

Thanks!

trevorld commented
  • I don't have any plans to end support for {optparse} which really is quite sufficient for many use cases.
  • {argparse} currently has a Python run-time dependency while {optparse} doesn't have any such run-time dependency.
  • {argparse} does support some features which {optparse} is unlikely to support.
  • I personally usually use {optparse} unless I really want a feature that only {argparse} provides (such as sub-parsers) in which case I'll use it instead.
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