Which, except for optparse, was all on the front page yesterday. So optparse is deprecated. More work I guess apart from auditing extensions for threading.
Life is great in the Python treadmill.
Life is great in the Python treadmill.
It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2.
It was in the "please just use argparse instead" state for a long time, this "just" adds an actual code warning.
getopt has its own brutal simplicity.
You can kill 2 birds with one stone by documenting your scripts while also providing the argument structure / parsing.
feature frozen doesn't sound so bad. It just risks sliding into "we don't want to maintain it because it has known problems". (My opinion: Everything well used has known problems, it's ok.)
After some googling, getopt was chosen due to it's simplicity.