If you can access the argument list manually, you could scan it for a negative integer, and then insert a '--' argument before that, if needed, before passing it to getopt/optparse. Then you wouldn't have to worry about it on the command line.
Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:08:05PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote regarding Re: getopt with negative numbers?: > > Casey wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 1:34 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> optparse can handle options with a negative int value; "--" can be used > >> to signal that no more options will follow: > > > > Thanks, Peter. getopt supports the POSIX "--" end of options indicator > > as well, but that seems a little less elegant than being able to simply > > set a value that tells the parser "I don't use any numeric values as > > options, and I want to allow negative values as arguments". At the > > parser level implemening this would be trivial and I frankly was hoping > > it had been implemented and it just wasn't mentioned in the spares > > Python getopt library reference. > > After a quick glance into the getopt and optparse modules I fear that both > hardcode the "if it starts with '-' it must be an option" behaviour. > > Peter > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
