Getopt / matching problem

[Andy Gimblett]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:57:33PM +0200, mixo wrote:
> 
> From running the command "python  script.py --use=mixo"
> I get the result
> [('--user', 'mixo')]
> 
> Why do I get match? Is there something that I have left out?
> If I pass "--u", "--us" to script I get the same result?

>From the getopt module documentation:

    Long options on the command line can be recognized so long as they
    provide a prefix of the option name that matches exactly one of
    the accepted options.  For example, it long_options is ['foo',
    'frob'], the option --fo will match as --foo, but --f will not
    match uniquely, so GetoptError will be raised.

So it's nothing to worry about, just the documented behaviour, and
really the way we'd want it to work, if you think about.

Cheers,

-Andy

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