I am porting a script from Korn Shell to python and want to pass named parameters like -JOB 123456 -DIR mydir
I can get it to work passing --JOB and --DIR but not -JOB and -DIR Any ideas? Current code : try: options, xarguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], '', ['JOB=', 'DIR=', 'ERR=', 'GRP=', 'TST=', 'JNM=', 'DAT=',]) except getopt.error: print 'Error: You tried to use an unknown option' sys.exit(1) JOB = '' for o,a in options[:]: print 'here2' print o print a if o == '--JOB': JOB = a print JOB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list