How to handle two-level option processing with optparse

[Steve Holden]

R. Bernstein wrote:
> Giovanni Bajo suggests:
> 
> 
>>If you call OptionParser.disable_interspersed_args() on your parser,
>>it will stop parsing at the first positional argument, leaving other
>>options unparsed.
> 
> 
> Wow - that was a quick answer! Thanks - it works great!
> 
> I see how I missed this. Neither disable_.. or enable_.. have document
> strings. And neither seem to described in the optparser section (6.21)
> of the Python Library (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html).
> 
> I wonder if something like this might be added to the Python Cookbook.
> 
Well you are just as capable of adding it as anyone else, so knock 
yourself out!

regards
  Steve
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