Docs: optparse not removed in Python 3.12

[hugovk]

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Description

The optparse module is deprecated, and it's better to use argparse, but there's no current plans to remove it.

https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/optparse.html shows it's still present in 3.12 and says:

Deprecated since version 3.2: The optparse module is deprecated and will not be developed further; development will continue with the argparse module.

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[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I wonder where I saw that it was going to be removed. Thank you for the correction.

[hugovk]

Maybe in the PEP 594 ("Removing dead batteries from the standard library") discussions, but they decided to keep it:

• https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#optparse

[DanielNoord]

They just announced the intent to keep it after we had moved all of our own code to argparse 😅

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I don't regret the move though, argparse is better and the intertwining of PyLinter and OptParser was pretty nasty 😄