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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by genmud on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:26AM (#30718735)
I disagree that optparse is more broken than argparse. As someone who wanted to add some (trivial) features to argparse, I quickly backed away from that code [1]. To be honest, I was really surprised how needlessly complex that particular code is.

[1] - https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/argparse.py

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by akvadrako on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:12AM (#30719712)
Argparse is also broken. It's not possible to create an argument that captures all remaining arguments even though the docs say it is.

There has been an open bug for this for many years.

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by jwilk on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:46AM (#30719896)
Link to the bug?
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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by akvadrako on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:06AM (#30719981)
https://bugs.python.org/issue17050

Apparently after 7 years they decided it can't be fixed and updated the docs.

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by jwilk on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:45PM (#30725237)
I'm baffled with the resolution of this bug. Removing the docs doesn't help anybody.

In my experience, argparse.REMAINDER works reasonably well, and apparently I'm not alone; there's >100 packages in Debian that use it:

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5Cbargparse%5B.%5DRE...

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by __del__ on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:47AM (#30750402)
i suppose they are both broken, but i claim optparse is "more broken" because it lacks the nargs="+" and nargs="?" functionality, and doesn't support positional arguments.

it's also valid to suggest that a plate of spaghetti is better than a cauldron full (thus favoring optparse).

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Re:Python finally offloads some batteries by sigg3 on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:41AM (#30719069)
Thank you. I thought I was crazy for feeling it was too complex.
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