Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] scripts: add argparse module for Python 2.6 compatibility

[John Snow]

On 08/25/2017 11:57 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Many scripts can benefit from the standard library argparse module, which has
> improvements over the older optparse module.  Unfortunately argparse was only
> shipped in Python 2.7 so we need a fallback for Python 2.6.
> 
> This patch series adds a copy of argparse.py and updates scripts as necessary
> to import it.
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi (3):
>   scripts: add argparse module for Python 2.6 compatibility
>   docker.py: Python 2.6 argparse compatibility
>   tests: migration/guestperf Python 2.6 argparse compatibility
> 
>  COPYING.PYTHON                     |  270 ++++
>  scripts/argparse.py                | 2406 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/docker/docker.py             |    4 +-
>  tests/migration/guestperf/shell.py |    8 +-
>  4 files changed, 2684 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 COPYING.PYTHON
>  create mode 100644 scripts/argparse.py
> 

Acked-by: John Snow <address@hidden>

Seems sane to me, provided it actually works in those 2.6 contexts we
wish it to...