New submission from Bluebird <p...@freehackers.org>:
The documentation of optparse mentions make_option() as the standard way
to create an option list:
For example, in the doc of python 2.5:
====
14.3.3.2 Populating the parser
[...]
pass it an Option instance (as returned by make_option())
[...]
option_list = [
make_option("-f", "--filename",
action="store", type="string", dest="filename"),
make_option("-q", "--quiet",
action="store_false", dest="verbose"),
]
(make_option() is a factory function for creating Option instances;
currently it is an alias for the Option constructor. A future version of
optparse may split Option into several classes, and make_option() will
pick the right class to instantiate. Do not instantiate Option
directly.)
===============
However, make_option is not part of the function exported in the __all__
list of optparse. Strangely enough, this does not prevent to use
make_option() in regular python scripts, but it does not work when
packaging a python application, for example with pyinstaller.
The problem is also present in python 2.6
The fix is either to update the documentation to use Option() directly
or to add make_option to __all__
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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 81456
nosy: bluebird, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: optparse doex not export make_option
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6
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