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ViewTrick1002yesterday at 10:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Right. The famous stdlib where once good libraries go to die so you instead depend on the latest community replacement choice.

Also argparse for Clap:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html


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dwattttttoday at 5:44 AM

To highlight the problem for Python: Python's standard library has getopt, optparse, and now argparse. I don't think they set out to offer 3 argument parsing libs, one of which is marked superseded, but here we are.