optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

[Tomi Silander]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <tsilande at hiit.fi> wrote:

>>How is one supposed to give negative numbers as positional arguments 
>>when using optparse?
> 
>   ./mitvit.py -- -1.1

Thank you,
this works. I saw it in the source, but apparently did not properly pay 
attention; all the args after "--" are considered positional if I read 
this right.

ts.