James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know your thoughts on a proposed change to optparse > that I have planned. It is possible to add default values to > multiple options using the set_defaults. However, when adding > descriptions to options the developer has to specify it in each > add_option() call.
-1 I see no advantage to swelling optparse when the language offers many solutions already. E.g. desc = { 'verbose': 'Output less information', 'castordir': 'specify the wanted CASTOR directory where to store ' 'the results tarball', 'previousrel': 'Top level dir of previous release for regression ' 'analysis'} parser.add_option('-q', '--quiet', action="store_false", dest='verbose', help = desc['verbose']) ... Or another approach might be like this. for ... in zip(...): parser.add_option(...) -- Pete Forman -./\.- Disclaimer: This post is originated WesternGeco -./\.- by myself and does not represent [EMAIL PROTECTED] -./\.- the opinion of Schlumberger or http://petef.22web.net -./\.- WesternGeco. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list