> I did all the requisite reading and found that I should use optparse > instead of getopt. I read the documentation and since the words > "simple" and "easy" often appeared in the examples and documentation, I > just knew that it would be a snap to implement.
I don't know where you got that. 'getopt' works just fine. 'optparse' works fine too. I don't think anybody is going to get too worked up over which you decide to use for such a simple case. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list