Validating positional arguments in optparse

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-10-23 05:54 AM, Filip Gruszczyński wrote:
>> That being said, I still stick with optparse. I prefer the dogmatic
>> interface that makes all my exe use the exact same (POSIX) convention. I
>> really don't care about writing /file instead of --file
>
> I would like to keep POSIX convention too, but just wanted
> OptionParser to do the dirty work of checking that arguments are all
> right for me and wanted to know the reason, it doesn't.
>
> I guess I should write a subclass, which would do just that.

If you don't want to allow /file, just don't use it. argparse's default is to 
only allow --options and not /options. You can configure it to do otherwise, but 
you are in complete control. Your programs will all follow the same convention.

I highly, highly recommend argparse over optparse.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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