getopt, i don't get it

[Dominik Kaspar]

I tried to use getopt and copied the example from:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-getopt.html

but nothing is working... getopt.GetoptError doesn't seem to exist and
when i run the program commenting this out, none of "-v", "-h" and
"-o" wants to be recognized... what's the matter?!

Dominik


import getopt, sys

def usage():
    print "Use it like this: bla bla bla"

def main():
    try:
        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "ho:v", ["help",
"output="])
    except: # getopt.GetoptError:
        # print help information and exit:
        usage()
        sys.exit(2)
    output = None
    verbose = False
    for o, a in opts:
        if o == "-v":
            verbose = True
        if o in ("-h", "--help"):
            usage()
            sys.exit()
        if o in ("-o", "--output"):
            output = a
    # ...

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()