getopt with negative numbers?
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 19:57:03 EDT 2007
Casey wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2:21 pm, "J. Clifford Dyer" <j... at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> If you can access the argument list manually, you could scan it for a
>> negative integer, and then insert a '--' argument before that,
>> if needed, before passing it to getopt/optparse. Then you wouldn't have
>> to worry about it on the command line.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cliff
>
> Brilliant!
>
> <code>
> # Look for the first negative number (if any)
> for i,arg in enumerate(sys.argv[1:]):
> # stop if
> if arg[0] != "-": break
> # if a valid number is found insert a "--" string before it
> which
> # explicitly flags to getopt the end of options
> try:
> f = float(arg)
> sys.argv.insert(i+1,"--")
> break;
> except ValueError:
> pass
> </code>
>
One person's "brilliant" is another's "kludge".
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