optparse question

[Matimus]

> I did all the requisite reading and found that I should use optparse
> instead of getopt.   I read the documentation and since the words
> "simple" and "easy" often appeared in the examples and documentation, I
> just knew that it would be a snap to implement.

I don't know where you got that. 'getopt' works just fine. 'optparse'
works fine too. I don't think anybody is going to get too worked up
over which you decide to use for such a simple case.

Matt