[ python-Feature Requests-1627266 ] optparse "store" action should not gobble up next option

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Feature Requests item #1627266, was opened at 2007-01-03 13:46
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Category: Python Library
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Raghuram Devarakonda (draghuram)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: optparse "store" action should not gobble up next  option

Initial Comment:

Hi,

Check the following code:

--------------opttest.py----------
from optparse import OptionParser

def process_options():
    global options, args, parser
    parser = OptionParser()

    parser.add_option("--test", action="store_true")
    parser.add_option("-m", metavar="COMMENT", dest="comment", default=None)
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    return

process_options()

print "comment (%r)" % options.comment
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$ ./opttest.py -m --test
comment ('--test')

I was expecting this to give an error as "--test" is an option. But it looks like even C library's getopt() behaves similarly. It will be nice if optparse can report error in this case. 






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>Comment By: Raghuram Devarakonda (draghuram)
Date: 2007-01-05 10:19

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I am attaching the code fragment as a file since the indentation got all
messed up in the original post. 
File Added: opttest.py

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