Passing all extra commandline arguments to python program, Optparse raises exception

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-04-16 19:32, Saptarshi wrote:
>>> Saptarshi
>> Preprocess the sys.args before calling optparse.
>> Simply search sys.args for the string "start" and the string "stop", and
>> note whichever comes first.  Then use slice operators to peel the extra
>> arguments off of sys.args.
>
> Thanks, i implemented your logic. I thought there was a Optparse
> feature to handle this.

There is:

   parser.allow_interspersed_args = False

This means that as soon as the parser hits start|stop, it assumes that 
everything following it is an argument and not an option that it needs to try to 
parse.

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Robert Kern

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