Is there an easy way to use getopt and still allow negative numbers as args? I can easily write a workaround (pre-process the tail end of the arguments, stripping off any non-options including negative numbers into a separate sequence and ignore the (now empty) args list returned by getopt, but it would seem this is such a common requirement that there would be an option to treat a negative value as an argument. Note that this is only a problem if the first non-option is a negative value, since getopt stops processing options as soon as it identifies the first argument value.
Alternatively, does optparse handle this? I haven't used optparse (I know it is more powerful and OO, but you tend to stick with what you know, especially when it is part of my normal python programming template), but if it handles negative numbers I'm willing to learn it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
