From 68ded6e6f148ef0dc95418be7a9bb61385942362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:58:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added 'translate_longopt()' function.

---
 Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
index eaf60737605..f93520019f6 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/fancy_getopt.py
@@ -470,6 +470,13 @@ def wrap_text (text, width):
     return lines
 
 # wrap_text ()
+
+
+def translate_longopt (opt):
+    """Convert a long option name to a valid Python identifier by
+    changing "-" to "_".
+    """
+    return string.translate(opt, longopt_xlate)
         
 
 class OptionDummy: