optparse docs

[Matthew Woodcraft]

tobiah  <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
> In
> 	http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-terminology.html
>
> The GNU project introduced "-" followed by a series of hyphen-separated 
> words, e.g. "-file" or "-dry-run". These are the only two option 
> syntaxes provided by optparse.

[...]

> So my question is whether the first 'GNU' version, was not meant to be
> --file, and --dry-run?

It is, and it's right in the documentation source. This is apparently a
problem with the conversion from LaTeX to html.

-M-