Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 1/5] qmp-shell: Use optparse module

[Markus Armbruster]

Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:

> It makes command-line parsing and generation of help text much
> simpler.

There's really no excuse for parsing command line arguments by hand in
Python.

> The optparse module is deprecated since Python 2.7, but argparse
> is not available in Python 2.6 (the minimum Python version
> required for building QEMU).

We have a few uses of argparse in the tree.  Are they okay?

We also use getopt in places.  Perhaps we should pick one way to parse
command lines and stick to it.

>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>