Re: optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

2005-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-04-06, Tomi Silander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>How is one supposed to give negative numbers as positional >>>arguments when using optparse? >> >> ./mitvit.py -- -1.1 > > this works. Yes, I know. :)

Re: optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

2005-04-06 Thread Tomi Silander
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How is one supposed to give negative numbers as positional arguments when using optparse? ./mitvit.py -- -1.1 Thank you, this works. I saw it in the source, but apparently did not properly pay attention; all the args

Re: optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

2005-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this must have been asked 1000 times (or nobody is as stupid as me), > but since I could not find the answer, here is the question. [...] > $ python2.4 ./mitvit.py -1.1 [optparse error] > How is one supposed to give negative numbers as

optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

2005-04-05 Thread Tomi Silander
Hi, this must have been asked 1000 times (or nobody is as stupid as me), but since I could not find the answer, here is the question. My program mitvit.py: -- import optparse optparse.OptionParser().parse_args() -- gives me $ python2.4 ./mitvit.py -1.1 usage: mitvit.py [opti