The command line syntax for my program is as follows: action key=value key=value...
Where action is a required string (ie. 'backup', 'init', 'restore', etc) and the program can accept one or more key value pairs. I know this syntax isn't standard, but I think it works great for my program as each key can override an identically named field in a configuration file, that way the user doesn't have to have two different syntaxes to do the same thing. I could do this with --key value, but key=value is cleaner IMHO because it matches the config file syntax. But I'm running into a problem with this which is that sys.argv splits my key=value options. I need to know the option associations, and there's no way to know this by inspecting sys.argv. Can I get access to the command line string as python saw it before it split it into sys.argv or is there another way? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
