optparse provides an object-oriented interface. Even if it has less features than argparse, it is more stable and has less bugs. It should be the preferable Python module for CLI. Linked PRs gh-126180 ...

gward mannequin commented Sep 25, 2004 Logged In: YES user_id=14422 Marking this fixed, but not closing it, pending a checkin to optparse.py on Python 2.3 branch and confirmation that it ...