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Migrate from optparse to argparse? #1636

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@hartwork
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opened on Sep 11, 2026

Hi!

I was wondering if there is interest or planning to migrate from optparse…

markdown/markdown/__main__.py

Line 59 in 0d6afd1

parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage, description=desc, version=ver, epilog=epilog)

… to argparse? One motivation for that from a user perspective would be that --help output would become more colourful and friendly with Python >=3.14 by default. What do you think?

Best, Sebastian

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  1. waylan commented on Sep 13, 2026

    @waylan
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    on Sep 13, 2026
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    The CLI hasn't changed in many years and there are no plans for future changes. A refactor doesn't really offer any value at this point and would just be a refactor for refactoring's sake. So I don't really see any point.

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  3. hartwork commented on Sep 13, 2026

    @hartwork
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    on Sep 13, 2026
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    @waylan it's not a refactoring, it's a functional change — it adds color:

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  4. hartwork commented on Sep 27, 2026

    @hartwork
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    on Sep 27, 2026
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    @waylan what do you think? Should we close the issue?

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    closed this as completedon Sep 28, 2026
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