Don Low <m_tessier at sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi, > > I'm going over a script that demonstrates the getopt function. I include > the script here: [...] > Can anyone explain this? Sorry for not answering your question, but can't you just use optparse (comes with python 2.3) or optik (same, but as downloadable library for older pythons)? It's much nicer. 'as