* Jay Loden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-11 22:30]: > I have an app that takes a command line argument of -l or --list. It uses > the > getopt module to parse the arguments, and I just noticed that for some > reason, getopt is matching "--lis" or "--li" etc to "--list". (Code pasted in > below) > > Is this normal behavior, and if so, is there any way to avoid this? I just > want it to match "--list" to "--list", not "--l" and "--li" and "--lis" etc.
This is normal. From getopt http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getopt.html Long options on the command line can be recognized so long as they provide a prefix of the option name that matches exactly one of the accepted options. For example, if long_options is ['foo', 'frob'], the option --fo will match as --foo, but --f will not match uniquely, so GetoptError will be raised. -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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