let optionparse.Optionparser ignore unknown command line switches.

[Steven W. Orr]

On 08/01/10 07:27, quoth News123:
> On 08/01/2010 01:08 PM, News123 wrote:
>> I wondered, whether there's a simple/standard way to let
>> the Optionparser just ignore unknown command line switches.
>>
> 
> In order to  illustrate, what I try to achieve:
> 
> 
> import optparse
> parser = optparse.OptionParser()
> parser.add_option("-t","--test",dest="test",action="store_true")
> argv=["tst.py","-t","--ignoreme_and_dont_fail"]
> try:
>     (options,args)=parser.parse_args(argv)
> except:
>     # due to --ignoreme_and_dont_fail
>     # I will end up here and neither options nor
>     # args will be populated
>     print "parser error:"
> # However I would love to be able to see here
> # that options.test is true despite the
> # error, that occurred afterwards
> print "T",options.test
> 

You need to let us know *why* you want to do this. My psychotic imagination is
contriving that you want to pass on the ignoremeanddontfail options to
something else. If so, then you should be using -- instead of this. The other
possible scheme to solve your unknown problem is to subclass OptionParser so
it does what you want.

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