On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mina Nozar <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > I don't really understand what dest and action in the arguments to > parser.add_option mean. > Any help is appreciated. > Have you read the fine manual, specifically the sections here: http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#optparse-standard-option-actions and here: http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#option-attributes Additionaly, I'm not sure you copied your code correctly, because after a copy and paste I get this: $ python localtest.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "localtest.py", line 5, in <module> parser.add_option("-cvs", dest="output", default=True, help="outputs the csv file for plotting activites") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1012, in add_option option = self.option_class(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 566, in __init__ self._set_opt_strings(opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 606, in _set_opt_strings self) optparse.OptionError: invalid long option string '-cvs': must start with --, followed by non-dash and when I correct that: $ python localtest.py -h uwwerne@WWERNER /c $ I get no output. HTH, Wayne
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