command line arguments processing: an ugly lpr wrapper

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Peter Hansen wrote:
> morden wrote:
> 
>>So, my question is:
>>how to make the code a bit less igly
>>and make it take arguments in format -Bfoo in addition to -B foo?
> 
> 
> Use the getopt module?  Much simpler, handles the above
> request.

I dont know if this may add value to your needs, but how about
adding pipes from "popen2" as well if your are using a *nix
system.

Eg,
       import popen2

       command = "/usr/bin/lpr %s" %(args)
       child_stdout, child_stdin, child_stderr = popen2.popen3(command)
       out = child_stdout.read()
       err = child_stderr.read()
       child_stdin.write(message)
       out ="%s%s" %(out,  child_stdout.read())
       err = "%s%s" %(err,child_stderr.read())
       child_stdout.close()
       child_stderr.close()
       status = child_stdin.close()

"out" will contain data from standard output, and "err" for
standard error.