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----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason Tishler <xxx AT xxx>
> To: xxx AT xxx
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: argparse for cygwin python
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:04:46PM -0500, LMH wrote:
>>  I have a python script and when I try to run it I get an error for no 
>>  such module, "ImportError: No module named argparse".
>> 
>>  [snip]
>> 
>>  Any suggestions?
> 
> See the following:
> 
>     http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html
> 
> argparse is not available until Python 3.2; Cygwin Python is 2.6.
> 

No, argparse is included as a standard package in Python 2.7. I use it all the time. It was introduced in Python 3.x, then backported, IIRC. I keep hoping Cygwin's python maintainer will update to at least 2.7 ;-)

--Rick


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