getopt: Make argument mandatory

[Fredrik Lundh]

Frans Englich wrote:

> In my use of getopt.getopt, I would like to make a certain parameter
> mandatory.

but you just did:

>        if configurationFile == "":
>            print "You must pass an URL/path to a configuration file, see
> --help."
>            sys.exit(common.exitCodes["parameter"])

> Is it possible?

afaik, getopt doesn't have any built-in validation features; Python's got
more than enough of them already...

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