PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

[tiran (Christian Heimes)]

@andersk

Regarding getopt and optparse: I’d like to remind you all that they’re not just “deprecated but too widely used to remove”. argparse uses a nonstandard reinterpretation of Unix command line grammars that makes certain arguments impossible to express. See issue 9334 which I filed nine years ago. Since apparently it can’t or won’t be fixed with the current argparse architecture, optparse should be un-deprecated.

Thanks for you feedback, but it’s slightly off topic. Could you please look for an existing bug on our bug tracker for de-deprecation of the optparse module and creaet a new one in case there is none? Thanks