Neal Norwitz writes:

For additions to the stdlib, should we try to make sure new features are used? In the above code, type(longopts) ... -> isinstance(longopts, str) (or basestring?) and all_options_first could be a bool.

Done. It really should be ,str), since Unicode in command line options is not yet support (although they should be, since, on Windows, command line options are "natively" Unicode). Regards, Martin