.. 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 ...

optparse provides an object-oriented interface. Even if it has less features than argparse, it is more stable and has less bugs. It should be the preferable Python module for CLI. Linked PRs gh-126180 ...

I just wrote a bit of Python to generate some reports from the contents of a database. The one program that was more than just "display the data" was the one to print the transaction log. It included ...