passing arguments like -JOB

[John Leslie]

I am porting a script from Korn Shell to python and want to pass named
parameters like -JOB 123456 -DIR mydir

I can get it to work passing --JOB and --DIR but not -JOB and -DIR

Any ideas?

Current code :

try:
    options, xarguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], '', ['JOB=',
'DIR=', 'ERR=', 'GRP=', 'TST=', 'JNM=', 'DAT=',])
except getopt.error:
    print 'Error: You tried to use an unknown option'
    sys.exit(1)
JOB = ''
for o,a in options[:]:
    print 'here2'
    print o
    print a
    if o == '--JOB':
       JOB = a
       print JOB