On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:52:48 +0000, Mathias Waack wrote: > We've integrated python into a legacy application. Everything works fine (of > course because its python;). There's only one small problem: the > application reads the commandline and consumes all arguments prefixed with > a '-' sign. Thus its not possible to call a python module from the > commandline with a parameter list containing options prefixed by '-' > or '--' signs. Thats not a major problem, but it prevents us from using th > optparse module. Is there a way to change to prefix, so one could use a '+' > (for instance) to mark command line options for optparse?
You have the source code. Does it look like the "-" is hard-coded in the module? Some solutions: (1) Fork the code. It's open source, you should be able to copy the code into a new module while still obeying the licence. (Note: open source does not mean "I can do anything I want". There is still a licence, but it is a very user-friendly licence. Read it and obey it.) Duplicate the file and change all the relevant "-" signs to "+" signs. (2) Are you sure you need to be using optparse? It sounds like an very non-standard use of the module to me. Perhaps there is a simpler alternative. (3) Create a filter module that reads sys.argv, replaces leading "+" signs with "-" signs, and then stuffs it back into sys.argv before optparse gets to see it. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
