Thanks...it worked perfectly.
Brilliant!!
JL
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> John Leslie wrote:
>
> > I am porting a script from Korn Shell to python and want to pass named
> > parameters like -JOB 123456 -DIR mydir
> >
> > I can get it to work passing --JOB and --DIR but not -JOB and -DIR
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> Unfortunately (for you), I think you will find most or all of the existing
> ways to parse command line options in Python follow the POSIX convention
> for arguments, i.e. single letter options are introduced with a single -
> and multi-letter options are introduced with --.
>
> My guess is that if you can't change whatever generates the command lines
> to conform to this convention you will have to write your own code to do
> the processing.
>
> Alternatively you might get by by hacking the command line in your Python
> code:
>
> for i, opt in enumerate(sys.argv):
> if opt in ('-JOB','-DIR', '-ERR', '-GRP', '-TST', '-JNM', '-DAT'):
> sys.argv[i] = '-'+opt
>
> ... and then use getopt or optparse here ...
>
> It isn't pretty, but so long as those values don't turn up elsewhere in the
> command line it ought to work.
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