[bootstrap] Replace optparse with argparse (NFC) #132
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What's in this pull request?
optparse was marked deprecated as of Python 2.7. Use its replacement, argparse. It comes with some handy features that make setting up the argument parsing a tad simpler.
Why merge this pull request?
Besides the fact that optparse is deprecated and no longer maintained, it also does not support features argparse does. The full list is here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#why-aren-t-getopt-and-optparse-enough
What downsides are there to merging this pull request?
One could argue that optparse is working out just fine for this project for now, and that a change this large confuses
git blametoo much to be worth it.