optparse eats $

2011-04-19 Thread tazz_ben
So, I'm using optparse as follows: Command line: python expense.py ">$100" -f ~/desktop/test.txt ['>00'] In Main: desc = '' p = optparse.OptionParser(description=desc) utilities = optparse.OptionGroup(p, 'Utility Options') utilities.add_option('--file', '-f', dest="file", help="Define

Distribution of Python Scripts

2010-11-18 Thread tazz_ben
Hi Folks - I'm an experienced programmer, but this is my first app with python, so I apologize for any stupidity on my part. So I've written/still working on a command line tool written in Python. It talks to a web service, so there really isn't anything in it that is dependent on a particular