Removing option from optparse

[Diez B. Roggisch]

GustavoTabares at gmail.com schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if the following is a bug or if I'm using the
> remove_option in the wrong way.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import optparse
> parser = optparse.OptionParser()
> parser.add_option("--test", help="This is a test option")
> parser.remove_option('--test')
> print parser.parse_args()
> 
> this will output:
> (<Values at 0x6beb8: {'test': None}>, [])
> 
> If you execute the --help on the file above you will not see --test as
> expected. I'm curious as to why parse_args is still returning this as
> an option.

I'm guessing here - but it is *one* thing to disable an option for the 
user because of whatever condition, and another to remove the options 
default value that code could possibly rely on to work. So I'd say the 
behavior is sane.

Diez