[Docutils-develop] [docutils:bugs] #441 Move from "optparse" to "argparse".

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Sorry for the radio silence!

I've made some progress in this branch ( https://github.com/AA-Turner/docutils/tree/argparse ) -- currently fixing the last few failing tests and then will clean up the commit history and propose as a patch. 

The work does lead me to ask about how pace of deprecations / removal (partly to help my chances of getting the patch accepted, and partly for 'nicer' code). 

Can I remove the "old" config parsing logic? It was deprecated in 2003 in R1643 ( https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/1643/ ). 

Equally, when deprecating features that would be obsoleted by my changes, would you suggest announcing removal in v0.20.0, v1.0.0, etc? 

(I have seen the proposed deprecation policy -- my personal feedback would be that it should go along with a versioning policy. Python itself is special in that they can't really bump the major version. If Docutils adopted semantic versioning, then removals would simply trigger a major version bump -- we could add additional language on at least X minor releases with deprecations before removal, for example).

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** [bugs:#441] Move from "optparse" to "argparse".**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Thu Jan 06, 2022 03:02 PM UTC by Günter Milde
**Last Updated:** Thu Jan 06, 2022 03:16 PM UTC
**Owner:** Günter Milde

The optparse documentation says:
> Deprecated since version 3.2: The optparse module is deprecated and will not be developed further; development will continue with the argparse module.

We are currently suppressing related deprecation warnings in the test suite.
After raising the Python dependency to >=3.7, now may be the right time to make the move.

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