Message3038

optparse was just added to trunk in r4018, and trunk has had textwrap for a while now. Since you're talking about pydev, I assume you want these added to the next 2.2 release?

Unfortunately optparse was only added to CPython in 2.3, so I'm not sure having these two in a 2.2 release would be feasible. I'm going to close this ticket out. Maybe if you could get these modules working on 2.2...

In general, porting a module from CPython usually involves:

o figuring out if it and its depdencies are pure python -- if they're not, rewrite the C code in java or python. if its pure Python, copy it over
o run its associated test and ensure it passes

There's more info on the wiki