IIRC, optparse was going to be be removed in 3.5(?) but outcry was large . It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2. It was in the "please just use

IIRC, optparse was going to be be removed in 3.5(?) but outcry was large . It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2. It was in the "please just use argparse instead" state for a long time, this "just" adds an actual code warning.