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ThomasWaldmann/argparse

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Last release: 9/12/2015

This source provides an archived, unsupported PyPI-era version of Python’s argparse module for older Python versions where argparse was not in the standard library (such as Python < 2.7 or < 3.2). It is useful if you need backward compatibility for command line argument parsing, including automatic help and usage messages, on legacy Python releases.

Project status

  • The repository appears to be in maintenance or end-of-life mode, it is marked as archived upstream, and the last upstream push was on 2021-05-13.
  • Update activity is historical rather than recent, with the most recent shown update summaries dated 2015-09-12 (r140), and earlier updates in 2014, suggesting no current regular update cadence.

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Recent updates

  • r140

    9/12/2015

    Release r140 updates the argparse package from version 1.3.0 to 1.4.0. The code changes focus on changing when default values are converted via the argument type function (to avoid multiple conversions and unintended default side effects), plus improved error handling for FileType when files cannot be opened.

    Breaking

  • r130

    12/15/2014

    This release updates argparse to version 1.3.0 and introduces support for subparser command aliases. It also adjusts how the test suite ensures it is testing the external argparse package (not the stdlib one), and expands CI-style testing configuration via tox.

    Features

  • r122

    11/15/2014

    Release r122 was published on 2014-11-15, but the publisher provided no release notes content. As a result, there is no documented information about new features, fixes, breaking changes, or migration steps.

  • r121

    3/31/2011

    Release r121 appears to be a small compatibility-oriented update. The only runtime code change is in argparse.py, where the module version is bumped and a Python 3 compatibility shim for basestring is added, alongside metadata and test/doc adjustments.

  • r12

    3/27/2011

    Release r12 has no publisher-provided release notes. The diff shown for r11 to r12 appears to focus on documentation and packaging/legal files (Sphinx docs content and included artifacts), with no obvious runtime/API changes visible in the provided diff content.

    Breaking

  • r11

    3/1/2010

    This release updates argparse to version 1.1, including improved error messages, more flexible version handling, and parser behavior tweaks around option parsing. The docs site content bundled in the repo is also updated to display version 1.1.

    BreakingFeatures

  • r101

    9/15/2009

    Release r101 updates argparse documentation and branding from version 1.0 to 1.0.1, adds a NEWS.txt file, and includes multiple behavioral fixes in the argparse implementation. The provided release notes are empty, so the substantive behavioral changes are not documented there.

    Breaking

  • r10

    7/26/2009

    This release (r10) does not include any release notes or publisher-provided change log content. As a result, there is no documented information about new features, breaking changes, bug fixes, security updates, or migrations in the provided data.