Suggestion: UnixOptionParser class in optparse.py

Bjorn Pettersen BPettersen at NAREX.com
Mon Jan 6 13:19:50 EST 2003


> From: Rich Harkins [mailto:rharkins at thinkronize.com] 
> 
> I love the OptionParser class.  Good stuff.  The only thing 
> that I would want different (right now anyway) would be a 
> simple way to parse Unix style options (first non-option 
> argument terminates options).

Does the getopt module
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-getopt.html) do what you
want? (It's the pre Python 2.3 way of doing options...)

-- bjorn





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