Given that argparse has known problems and that not all optparse code can be por...

the_mitsuhiko on April 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Click – Python library for command-line interfaces

Given that argparse has known problems and that not all optparse code can be ported to argparse I doubt optparse will ever go away. It's also a very small module and if optparse will ever disappear only a subset of optparse is needed to make click work.