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[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 30 19:46:28 CEST 2009 
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:21, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
>
>> Obviously if one of the getopt supporters has a better way of doing
>> this then please speak up.
>
> I'm not a getopt supporter per se - I'm +1 for argparse - but Opster provides
> some nice syntax sugar on top of getopt, and can be seen here:
>
> http://blogg.ingspree.net/blog/2009/09/14/opster/
>
> I've contacted Steven about a similar approach for argparse, and we're waiting
> for Yuvgoog's work on argparse(func) to be done to see if there's a feasible
> similar approach.

I am reluctant to jump on these argument parsing decorators until they
have existed outside the standard library for a while and have settled
down as I suspect some people want to use annotations to do type
conversion/checking, others don't, etc.

-Brett
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