sagemath/sagecell — Issue #242: Use argparse instead of optparse
Author: kramer314
Created: 2012-02-10 16:06:59+00:00
State: open
Labels: new feature, process device

We're currently using optparse because Sage's python used to be somewhat outdated, but with 5.0beta0, its python install was updated to 2.7.x, so we can switch to argparse (which is something comments in multiple files mention should be done when possible). There's also a fair number of compelling reasons to use argparse over optparse here:

http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/argparse-vs-optparse.html