# PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/1704>\
**Category:** PEPs\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/1704 "2019-05-22T10:58:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/1704/20 "2019-05-23T13:33:03Z")

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> [@andersk](#):
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> 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](https://bugs.python.org/issue9334) 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

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