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@andersk
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mannequin
opened on May 30, 2019
BPO 37103
Nosy @ericvsmith, @andersk, @tirkarthi

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title = 'Undo deprecation of optparse'
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  1. andersk commented on May 30, 2019

    @andersk
    anderskmannequin
    on May 30, 2019
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    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.

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  5. tirkarthi commented on May 31, 2019

    @tirkarthi
    tirkarthi
    on May 31, 2019
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    See also bpo-25521

  6. ezio-melotti
    transferred this issue fromon Apr 10, 2022
  7. erlend-aasland
    added this to Argparse issueson Feb 1, 2023
  8. serhiy-storchaka
    moved this to Doc issues in Argparse issueson Oct 11, 2024

  9. savannahostrowski commented on Jan 31, 2025

    @savannahostrowski
    savannahostrowski
    on Jan 31, 2025
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    This was done via #126227

  10. savannahostrowski
    closed this as completedon Jan 31, 2025
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