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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-02-18 00:48:23 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2003-02-18 00:48:23 (GMT)
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[Bug #688261] Fix optparse example and output
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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 4b7c520..2075244 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -1735,6 +1735,7 @@ You start by creating an instance of \class{OptionParser} and telling
it what your program's options are.
\begin{verbatim}
+import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
op = OptionParser()
@@ -1750,7 +1751,9 @@ Parsing a command line is then done by calling the \method{parse_args()}
method.
\begin{verbatim}
-options, args = op.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
+import optparse
+
+options, args = optparse.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
print options
print args
\end{verbatim}
@@ -1768,7 +1771,7 @@ $ ./python opt.py -i data arg1
['arg1']
$ ./python opt.py --input=data --length=4
<Values at 0x400cad2c: {'input': 'data', 'length': 4}>
-['arg1']
+[]
$
\end{verbatim}