Proposal:

timeit currently uses getopt, and the __main__ code is a bit messy (see #137587). As such, I'm suggesting that we move to argparse instead. The --help contains the entire module's docstring which I believe could be truncated (for instance, it includes the classes and functions that are available in the module).

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-137944: use argparse instead of getopt in timeit #137955