<div dir="ltr">Sorry, I completely misread and thought you said getopt not optparse.<div><div><br></div><div>in case you're bored, here's the Python project's rational for a third parsing library: <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#why-aren-t-getopt-and-optparse-enough">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/#why-aren-t-getopt-and-optparse-enough</a><br>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>Obviously if python 2.6 is a hard dependency I can re-implement this in optparse, but I thought that Mac OSX was the blocker for python 2.7 features a year ago.<br></div></div>