getopt: where's da dicts?????

[Fredrik Lundh]

Les Schaffer <godzilla at netmeg.net> wrote:
> just started using the getopt module. i was surprised to see it
> returns the options in list format rather than perl's (better)
> dictionary format.

maybe that's because the order of the options may some-
times be important, and python dictionaries are unordered.

how does Perl handle that?

(or maybe it's just the C heritage that shows through.
guess you're expected to loop over the options, just
as in C, and in that case, getopt.py has already made
the opt = opt.items() for you...)

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