.. deprecated:: 3.2 The :mod:`optparse` module is :term:`soft deprecated` and will not be developed further; development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module. Here's an example of using ...

Out of curiosity, why is there a module amuse.units.optparse? Is this different from the standard python optparse (which is since Python 2.7 deprecated and replaced by argparse)? And why is it in ...