Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 1/5] qmp-shell: Use argparse module

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:07:21AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:36:21PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > It makes command-line parsing and generation of help text much
> > simpler.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 61 
> > +++++++++++++++++----------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 
> The minimum Python version is 2.6.  The argparse module was introduced
> in Python 2.7 so we cannot use it without increasing the minimum Python
> version:
> 
> https://docs.python.org/2.6/modindex.html
> 
> I suggest holding off on this for now.

Although its deprecated, perhaps we can use  optparse instead ? It is
available in py2 & 3 and very similar to argparse.

Regards,
Daniel
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