Hello,
It's strange behaviour. Have you tried argparse
(http://code.google.com/p/argparse/)? I've been using it for long time
without any problem like that?
Best regards,
Javier
2009/6/10 David Shapiro <david.shap...@sas.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to find an example of how to deal with options that have
> spaces in them. I am using jython, which is the same I think as python
> 2.2.3. I feebly tried to use optparse and argparse with no success (got
> gettext, locale, and optparse). The code is as follows:
>
> try:
> (opts, args) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "hs:p:n:j:d:l:u:c:t:w:q:v",
> ["help", "server=", "port=",
> "dsName=","jndiName=","driverName=","driverURL=","user=","passWD=","targetServer=","whereProp=","testTableName=","version"])
> except getopt.GetoptError:
> usage()
>
> for opt in opts:
> (key, value) = opt
> if (key in ("-v", "--version")):
> print "Version: " + version
> sys.exit(1)
> if (key in ("-h", "--help")):
> usage()
> if (key in ("-s", "--server")):
> server = value
> if (key in ("-p", "--port")):
> port = value
> if (key in ("-n", "--dsName")):
> dsName = value
> if (key in ("-j", "--jndiName")):
> jndiName = value
> if (key in ("-d", "--driverName")):
> driverName = value
> if (key in ("-l", "--driverURL")):
> driverURL = value
> if (key in ("-u", "--user")):
> user = value
> if (key in ("-c", "--passWD")):
> passWD = value
> if (key in ("-t", "--targetServer")):
> targetServer = value
> if (key in ("-q", "--testTableName")):
> testTableName = value
> if (key in ("-w", "--whereProp")):
> whereProp = value
>
>
> print "server: " + server
> print "port: " + port
> print "dsName: " + dsName
> print "jndiName: " + jndiName
> print "driverName: " + driverName
> print "driverURL: " + driverURL
> print "user: " + user
> print "passWD: " + passWD
> print "testtable: " + testTableName
> print "targetServer: " + targetServer
> print "whereProp: " + whereProp
>
> The one that gives me trouble is with the -q option, because it can look
> like: -q "SQL 1 TABLE". It returns back just SQL. How do I get it to return
> the whole thing that is in double quotes? Another problem is that whereProp
> value is just not seen. Is there a limit to the size for argv?
>
> If I use optparse instead of getopt, I see that SQL 1 TABLE goes into args
> instead of values by the way. A temporary workaround is to use "
> ".join(args) and assign that to testTableName, but I worry about what will
> happen if testTableName is blank or has something with no spaces. Also, it
> just seem weird I have to do a work around like that. I could have swore
> using double quotes should have fixed this issue, but they do not seem to
> work.
>
> David
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