The thing I don't like about optparse is that the documentation only mentions about half of the features. Sure, it's the most useful half, but every other stand

The thing I don't like about optparse is that the documentation only mentions about half of the features. Sure, it's the most useful half, but every other standard library module has an API reference that at least mentions all the methods on every class. For my current project at work, we're using optparse along with the configparse extension to read config files, and a bunch of monkey-patching to make it all work well together. Further development in the realm of runtime configuration is welcome, if frustratingly diverse at times.