optparse provides an object-oriented interface. Even if it has less features than argparse, it is more stable and has less bugs. It should be the preferable Python module for CLI. Linked PRs gh-126180 ...

gward mannequin commented Sep 25, 2004 Logged In: YES user_id=14422 Marking this fixed, but not closing it, pending a checkin to optparse.py on Python 2.3 branch and confirmation that it ...

I just wrote a bit of Python to generate some reports from the contents of a database. The one program that was more than just "display the data" was the one to print the transaction log. It included ...