Python 2.0 incompatibility

Optik's home page says:

     Requirements

     Optik requires Python 2.0 or greater.

But Python's optparse.py doesn't include this part of Optik's
lib/option.py:

# Do the right thing with boolean values for all known Python versions.
try:
     True, False
except NameError:
     (True, False) = (1, 0)

Is pre-2.3 compatibility important for optparse.py?  Should
optparse.py be added to PEP 291 (Backward Compatibility for Standard
Library, http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0291.html) with 2.0 as the
Python version for backward compatibility?  I ask because Docutils
includes optparse.py (built with the "merge" script) for optional
installation with pre-2.3 Python, but without the compatibility code
(above) optparse.py is not compatible with Python pre-2.2.1.

If compatibility is important, I suggest either replacing "False" with
"0" and "True" with "1", or changing the "merge" script to include the
compatibility code.

If pre-2.3 compatibility isn't important for optparse.py (as opposed
to the standalone optik package), I'll have to distribute a
slightly-modified version of optparse.py with Docutils.

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