Name
getopt
Synopsis
getopt(args,options,long_options=[ ])
Parses
command-line options. args is usually
sys.argv[1:]. options
is a string: each character is an option letter, followed by
':' if the option takes a parameter.
long_options is a list of strings, each a
long-option name, without the leading '--',
followed by '=' if the option takes a parameter.
When getopt encounters an error, it raises
GetoptError, an exception class supplied by the
getopt module. Otherwise,
getopt returns a pair
(
opts,args_proper
),
where opts is a list of pairs of the form
(
option,parameter
)
in the same order in which options are found in
args. Each
option is a string that starts with a
single hyphen for a short-form option or two hyphens for a long-form
one; each parameter is also a string (an
empty string for options that don’t take
parameters). args_proper is the list of
program argument strings that are left after removing the options.
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