getopt: where's da dicts?????

[Les Schaffer]

just started using the getopt module. i was surprised to see it
returns the options in list format rather than perl's (better)
dictionary format.

i thought i read on c.l.p many moons ago about someone who had written 
an add-on to getopt to return a dict of options a la perl. but i found 
nothing in deja news for this.

anyone have a pointer to such solution (before i implement it myself), 
i'd do something like this:

def make_dicts_from_opts( opts ):

    options = {}

    for item in opts:
        options[item[0]] = item[1]

    return options


import getopt
...
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'dhu:v')
opts = make_dicts_from_opts(opts)
return opts,args
...

etc etc

les  schaffer