Does anyone else aside from zed have burning issues with optparse? I'm genuinely curious. I use it quite a lot, but have never really had to push the boundaries of what optparse can do. As an example, my optparse code usually looks something along these lines:
Zeds way (look in the lamson source: it is in lamson.args and well documented) gives you a bi more freedom.
So it passes out any options it finds by default and lets you decide what to do with it - you only have to call a function if you want to set a default.
It lets you run args.parse_and_run_command to directly run a function and pass it the cmdline options as a dict.
It's all very handy and is totally compatible with previous cmdline structures!
I think it's a neat option & hopefully someone will convince Guido to have it in Python core in the future :) (doubt it though)
Grab the lamson source and dig it out to get a better idea.
I use it frequently and I like the output it creates. I sure as hell like python's better than C#'s (== none at all and people doing all kinds of crazy broken crap inlined into Main(string[] args).
I've never managed to use optparse without the docs open though. I'm not sure that's a defect, but it seems like room for improvement.
Can someone (zed?) point at a library in any other language that's better?
