optparse: list out entered values

[Nirnimesh]

On May 25, 3:07 am, Nirnimesh <nirnim... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using optparse.OptionParser for parsing command line arguments.
>
>  parser = optparse.OptionParser()
>   parser.add_option("-x", "--xample", help="example",
> default="nothing",
>       dest="ex")
>   options = parser.parse_args()[0]
>
> python example.py -x value
>
> I'm in search of a method to list out all the entered options along
> with the values. something which gives me:
>   ex => value
>   help => example
>   version => blah blah..
> I expected such a method to be there already.
>
> I could use dir(options) but it's kinda ugly and would require
> eliminating the "unwanted" variables.
>
> print dir(options)
>
> ['__doc__', '__eq__', '__init__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__repr__',
> '__str__', '_update', '_update_careful', '_update_loose',
> 'ensure_value', 'ex', 'read_file', 'read_module']
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Nirnimesh

I dug around with the optparse module and got this:

for key, val in parser.values.__dict__.iteritems():
    print key, val