argparse is in standard library in Python 2.7 and >=3.2 https://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/issues/detail?id=88 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ # Both install and setup requires - because we read VERSION from within the # package, and the package also exports all the APIs. # six for compat helpers -REQUIRES = ['argparse', 'six'], +REQUIRES = ['six'] +if sys.version_info < (2, 7) or (3, 0) <= sys.version_info < (3, 2): + REQUIRES.append('argparse') params = dict( name=NAME,