Any interest in a getoption.py?

[Mark Hadfield]

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>> Are you aware of the new optparse module in 2.3?
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> No - I was not aware of that. Thanks. It looks pretty close to what
> I have done although it doesn't go quite as far eg. printing of man
> & docbook pages and output of code to process the options. Also I
> guess many of us are still at python 1.5 and not 2.3!

Python 2.3's optparse module is essentially the same as Optik:

  http://optik.sourceforge.net/

Optik works on Python 2.0 or greater. Sorry, that doesn't help the 1.5
users, but many of the rest of us can get optparse's functionality
without upgrading to 2.3.

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Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
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National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)