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  r78576 | steven.bethard | 2010-03-02 00:38:09 -0800 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010) | 3 lines

  Initial commit of the argparse library, based on argparse 1.1.
  Docs still need some updating to make getopt and optparse match the wording promised in the PEP.
  There are also probably a number of :class:ArgumentParser etc. links that could be added to the argparse documentation.
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 - Issue #6729: Added ctypes.c_ssize_t to represent ssize_t.
 
+- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
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 Extension Modules
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