On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:29:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to be able to do something like: > > myscript.py * -o outputfile > > and then have the shell expand the * as usual, perhaps to hundreds of > filenames.
If you are calling this from most Linux and Unix shells, the shell will already have expanded the * and myscript.py will never see the asterisk. > But as far as I can see, getopt can only get one argument > with each option. The getopt module has two main functions you probably want to call. getopt.getopt expects options like -o arg followed by any remaining args. getopt.gnu_getopt allows mixed args and options. But frankly, the easiest way of dealing with your problem is just to change your user-interface. What is wrong with using myscript.py -o outputfile * instead? > In the above case, there isn't even an option string > before the *, but even if there was, I don't know how to get getopt to > give me all the expanded filenames in an option. If you use a shell that doesn't expand the filenames, you can use the glob module to expand it yourself. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
