optparse docs?

[Skip Montanaro]

I'm trying to convert my brain from getopt to optparse.  I want to refer to
documentation similar to the regular library reference manual docs which
concisely documents the Option and OptionParser classes, but can't find that
sort of detail in the current documentation.  "pydoc optparse" isn't
sufficient either in this case.  (Look at the threading module docs for an
example of what I'm after.)  Am I missing something?

To make it more concrete, I can't seem to find a list of all the arguments
accepted by OptionParser.add_option() or the Option class constructor.

Thx,

Skip