Parsing cmd line args problem

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

Paulo da Silva wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I am writing my 1st. python program and I have the following problem:
> 
> I need to build a list of lists (or tuples) for every -i option.
> Example:
> prog -i xxx -i yyy
> and get a list like [[xxx,1],[yyy,1]]
> 
> I have tried this (callback) without any success:

<example snipped>

> 
> 
> Any help please?
> Thanks

It might be easier to just collect all values for the option in one list and
later sort, count or do whatever with it. I believe there is an action in
optparse to append values.

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Shalabh