Casey wrote: > On Sep 27, 1:34 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> optparse can handle options with a negative int value; "--" can be used >> to signal that no more options will follow: > > Thanks, Peter. getopt supports the POSIX "--" end of options indicator > as well, but that seems a little less elegant than being able to simply > set a value that tells the parser "I don't use any numeric values as > options, and I want to allow negative values as arguments". At the > parser level implemening this would be trivial and I frankly was hoping > it had been implemented and it just wasn't mentioned in the spares > Python getopt library reference.
After a quick glance into the getopt and optparse modules I fear that both hardcode the "if it starts with '-' it must be an option" behaviour. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list