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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py index 512bc9b..6c1134f 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py @@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ class FancyGetopt: def __init__ (self, option_table=None): - # The option table is (currently) a list of 3-tuples: - # (long_option, short_option, help_string) + # The option table is (currently) a list of tuples. The + # tuples may have 3 or four values: + # (long_option, short_option, help_string [, repeatable]) # if an option takes an argument, its long_option should have '=' # appended; short_option should just be a single character, no ':' # in any case. If a long_option doesn't have a corresponding @@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ class FancyGetopt: else: # the option table is part of the code, so simply # assert that it is correct - assert "invalid option tuple: %r" % (option,) + raise ValueError, "invalid option tuple: %r" % (option,) # Type- and value-check the option names if type(long) is not StringType or len(long) < 2: |