CVS style argument parsing?

[Josef Wolf]

Hello!

Is it possible to have CVS-style command line options with the optparse
module?  I could get as far as:

  import sys
  from optparse import OptionParser, OptionGroup
  parser = OptionParser()
  
  opt_global = OptionGroup (parser, "Global options")
  opt_global.add_option("-m", "--mode", choices=["import", "dump"],
                        dest="mode", default="dump",
                        help="One out of import, dump")
  opt_global.add_option("-d", "--dbname", default="test",
                        help="The name of the database")
  opt_global.add_option("-D", "--dbpath", default=Cnf.dbpath,
                        help="The path to the database")
  
  opt_dump = OptionGroup (parser, "Dumper options")
  opt_dump.add_option("-v", "--dump-values",
                      action="store_true", dest="values", default=False,
                      help="Dump values.")

How can I get rid of the "-m" option so that

  myscript -dfoo dump -v

would be possible?

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