* Pat (Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:02:59 -0500) > Up until today, I never needed to pass any arguments to a Python > program. > [...] > getopt resolved my immediate need, but I would like to know how one > could use optparse to extract out the options from something like "dir > /s /b".
If you actually read the documentation (it's right at the top) you knew that this is not possible: "There are many different syntaxes for options; the traditional Unix syntax is a hyphen (“-“) followed by a single letter [...] The GNU project introduced "--" [...] These are the only two option syntaxes provided by optparse. Some other option syntaxes that the world has seen include: [...] a slash followed by a letter, or a few letters, or a word, e.g. "/f", "/file" These option syntaxes are not supported by optparse, and they never will be. This is deliberate: [...] the last only makes sense if you’re exclusively targeting VMS, MS-DOS, and/or Windows." Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
