Steve -- thanks for your pointer to argparse, awesome progress -- optional arguments.
However, I still wonder how I do reporting. The idea is that there should be a list with tuples of the form: (short, long, value, help) -- for all options, regardless of whether they were specified on the command line or not. Moreover, a way to create such list should be incremental -- in ruby I define things around each option definition and add a new tuple to the reporting list right after the block defining the option. The idea is, -- help should report on all options with their actual or default values, and everything pertaining to one option -- its definition, callbacks, and adding it to the reporting list -- must be in vicinity of each other, so I don't forget to output some stuff about an option ten options below... The snippet I've shown pretty much does it in Ruby. Ah, yeah, and another thing -- I want to define a module with about 10 options common for a project. Then I'd import it in scripts, and there should be three things doable with the preexisting default options: -- turn off any of them -- supply new defaults to any of them -- add new options in the same way Wonder how brave pythonistas do that! Cheers, Alexy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
