optparse and negative numbers as positional arguments

[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:
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import optparse
optparse.OptionParser().parse_args()
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gives me

$ python2.4 ./mitvit.py -1.1
usage: mitvit.py [options]

mitvit.py: error: no such option: -1.1

How is one supposed to give negative numbers as positional arguments
when using optparse?

ts.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <ts******@hiit.fi> 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 positional arguments
when using optparse?

./mitvit.py -- -1.1

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[Tomi Silander]

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <ts******@hiit.fi> 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 after "--" are considered positional if I read
this right.

ts.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-04-06, Tomi Silander <ts******@hiit.fi> wrote:

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2005-04-05, Tomi Silander <ts******@hiit.fi> wrote:

How is one supposed to give negative numbers as positional
arguments when using optparse?

./mitvit.py -- -1.1

this works.

Yes, I know. :)
I saw it in the source, but apparently did not properly pay
attention; all the args after "--" are considered positional
if I read this right.

That's the way it's traditionally been done. I just assumed
that optparse did it that way, and when I tried it with
optparse it seemed to work the same. It's not mentioned in the
optparse documentation anywhere (it probably should be).

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