[Tutor] Command lines args (getopt)

[David Rock]

* Justin Heath <justin at unixremedies.com> [2003-08-13 14:26]:
> All,
> 
> I am getting upwards of single character arguments that make sense for a 
> program I am writing. I am using getopt to parse the arguments. My 
> question is I would like to use two character short options such as -lu 
> (for local user) and -ru (for remote user). I know I can acomplish this 
> (well almost) with long opts such as --ru, but I am trying to stay away 
> from that. Any suggestions?

I would recommend just living with how the options are designed, an
extra hyphen won't kill you ;-)

If you MUST do it this way, try defining the short option so that it
expects a value (e.g. local user -> l:) and just treat the "u" as the
argument to the option. I have not tried this, but I see no reason why
this wouldn't work except if you have a -u option, maybe.

There is a new option parser in Python 2.3 that may have something
different for "long-short" options, but I have not looked in great
depth, yet.

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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