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Switch command line parser to argparse #583
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@FiloSottile @phihag If I implement this (obviously quite a bit of work, but worth it in my mind), will it be merged? What about Python 2.6, where By the way, how long do we plan to support 2.6 since it has reached end of life and is receiving fixes, security or otherwise, as of October 2013:
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We will support Python 2.6 for quite some time (basically, until RHEL drops support). Since I do not see a pressing need to switch to argparse anyways (there are no security implications, and virtually no differences for our users). I'm therefore closing this issue, to be reopened after we have dropped 2.6 support, or a new 3.x version drops optparse. |
No argparse! Docopt is the best: https://github.com/docopt/docopt |
[pull] master from ytdl-org:master
From http://docs.python.org/2/library/optparse.html
Follow http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html#upgrading-optparse-code
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