optparse question

[Pat]

>>
>> I had no idea people were going to get so upset that I used a Windows
>> example and go off on a tear.
> 
> Nobody is upset, and nobody has "gone off on a tear". The point about
> the "Windows example" is that the docs say in a close-to-screamingly-
> obvious manner that /options are not supported, no matter what
> religion uses them. It was not, and still is not, apparent what you
> really wanted. We're all patiently waiting for you to rephrase the
> question(s).

Sigh.  I used an incorrect example (I sincerely apologize to the world 
for that egregious error on my part).

I''m totally cognizant that the documentation states '-'' or '--' need 
to be used for flags.

The question was it possible to add a simple flag like 'd-' to optparse 
with no other parameters?   I'm guessing from the vitriolic diatribes 
here that the answer is no.

To those who wrote that no one uses command line windows and no one uses 
  'dir /s /b' command is totally irrelevant.  I'm writing a proprietary 
program used solely by my company.  Not everyone writes programs for the 
same target audience as you do. The program is written in Python on 
Ubuntu.

If you don't want to answer the question or don't have any meaningful to 
add, please don't pollute the forum with further vacuous responses.  I 
didn't ask, or expect, you to write the code for me.

christ on a stick, so many of you behave like prima donnas.