Re: optparse eats $

Try this on your *nix command line: echo ">$100" On a *nix command line, the '$1' part of ">$100" will be seen as 'give me the value of the shell variable "1"', and since it has no value, will result in an empty string. So it's not optparse, or Python, because the literal string you intend to

Re: skipping one unittest assertion?

I agree that each test should test only one 'thing', but it's also true that testing one 'thing' sometimes/often involves multiple assertions. But in the OP's case, it does sound like the assertion he wants to skip should be broken out into its own test. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: portable multiprocessing code

You could also install Python 2.7 on that RedHat machine. It can be done without interfering with the 2.5 that RedHat depends on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Obtaining a full path name from file

If a filename does not contain a path component, os.path.abspath will prepend the current directory path onto it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list