.. deprecated:: 3.2 The :mod:`optparse` module is :term:`soft deprecated` and will not be developed further; development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module. Here's an example of using ...

This PEP proposes inclusion of the argparse [1] module in the Python standard library in Python 2.7 and 3.2. The argparse module is a command line parsing library which provides more functionality ...