>because the traceback says the index is 0 and there's only one line with a 0 >in it! Indeed. Thank you.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:11 AM, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> >> Matthew Sacks wrote: >>> >>> Hi List, >>> I am getting an index out of range error when trying to parse with >>> getopt. >>> Probably something simple. Any suggestions are appreciated >>> >>> optlist, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'h', ['connectPassword=', >>> 'adminServerURL=', 'action=', 'targets=', 'appDir=']) >>> >>> >>> #Assign Opts >>> connectPassword = optlist[0][1] >>> adminServerURL = optlist[1][1] >>> action = optlist[2][1] >>> targets = optlist[3][1] >>> appDir = optlist[4][1] >>> >>> #this statement never gets executed >>> print "Args: " + connectPassword + " " + adminServerURL + " " + action >>> + " " + targets + " " + appDir >>> >>> File "/home/msacks/untitled4.py", line 23, in ? >>> IndexError: index out of range: 0 >>> >> It might help a little if you made it more obvious which was line 23 ... >> > It a guess I'd say it was: > > connectPassword = optlist[0][1] > > because the traceback says the index is 0 and there's only one line with a 0 > in it! > >> The real problem, though, is a misunderstanding of what getopt.getopt() >> returns. The (option, value) pairs are only returned for options found >> in the command line, so you can't guarantee there'll be four. >> >> Set your values to defaults, then adjust for those for which an option >> is found in the list, as in the "typical usage" example in the Fine >> Manual. >> > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
