On Sep 27, 1:34 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > optparse can handle options with a negative int value; "--" can be used to > signal that no more options will follow:
Thanks, Peter. getopt supports the POSIX "--" end of options indicator as well, but that seems a little less elegant than being able to simply set a value that tells the parser "I don't use any numeric values as options, and I want to allow negative values as arguments". At the parser level implemening this would be trivial and I frankly was hoping it had been implemented and it just wasn't mentioned in the spares Python getopt library reference. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list