getopt

[Peter Otten]

Don Low wrote:

> I'm going over a script that demonstrates the getopt function. I include
> the script here:

I you are only now exploring the possibilities of getopt, you might want to
leapfrog and use the more powerful optparse module.

> options, xarguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'ha', \
> ['file=', 'view=', 'version', 'python-version'])

If you want the "a" option to require an argument, you have to append a
colon serving the same purpose as the "=" for long options:

options, xarguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'ha:', \
  ['file=', 'view=', 'version', 'python-version'])


Peter