Re: [Matplotlib-users] mpl command-line utilities

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Mark Lawrence <bre...@ya...> wrote:
> On 18/10/2012 12:54, Alexander Eberspaecher wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:45:24 +0100
>> Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Using e.g. optparse, multiple data files shouldn't be too complicated.
>>
>
> For the record optparse is deprecated so use argparse.  This might also
> be helpful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhcPJK5cMc, my apologies if
> it's already been mentioned.
>
> --
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Lawrence.

Oh. My. God. That is unworldly.

\begin{opinons}
optparse is awful, and deprecated
argparse is better, but has *serious* limitations
getopt is also pretty bad
\end{opinions}

Thank you *so* much for posting that.

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