On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:35:05 +0200, Torsten Mohr wrote: > parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", > dest = 'verb', > help = 'be loud', > action = 'store_true', > default = 'store_false') > > (opts, args) = parser.parse_args() > > print "opts", opts > print "args", args > ------example > > If i call it without any parameters i get: > > opts {'verb': 'store_false'} > args [] > > > I would rather like to see the actual value False in "opts", did i use > some wrong parameters somewhere?
if you want `False` as default you should actually use `False` and not the string 'store_false'. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list