"""distutils.fancy_getopt Wrapper around the standard getopt module that provides the following additional features: * short and long options are tied together * options have help strings, so fancy_getopt could potentially create a complete usage summary * options set attributes of a passed-in object """ # created 1999/03/03, Greg Ward __rcsid__ = "$Id$" import string, re from types import * import getopt from distutils.errors import * # Much like command_re in distutils.core, this is close to but not quite # the same as a Python NAME -- except, in the spirit of most GNU # utilities, we use '-' in place of '_'. (The spirit of LISP lives on!) # The similarities to NAME are again not a coincidence... longopt_re = re.compile (r'^[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)$') # This is used to translate long options to legitimate Python identifiers # (for use as attributes of some object). longopt_xlate = string.maketrans ('-', '_') def fancy_getopt (options, object, args): # The 'options' table is a list of 3-tuples: # (long_option, short_option, help_string) # 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 # short_option, short_option should be None. All option tuples must # have long options. # Build the short_opts string and long_opts list, remembering how # the two are tied together short_opts = [] # we'll join 'em when done long_opts = [] short2long = {} attr_name = {} takes_arg = {} for (long, short, help) in options: # Type-check the option names if type (long) is not StringType or len (long) < 2: raise DistutilsGetoptError, \ "long option must be a string of length >= 2" if (not ((short is None) or (type (short) is StringType and len (short) == 1))): raise DistutilsGetoptError, \ "short option must be None or string of length 1" long_opts.append (long) if long[-1] == '=': # option takes an argument? if short: short = short + ':' long = long[0:-1] takes_arg[long] = 1 else: takes_arg[long] = 0 # Now enforce some bondage on the long option name, so we can later # translate it to an attribute name in 'object'. Have to do this a # bit late to make sure we've removed any trailing '='. if not longopt_re.match (long): raise DistutilsGetoptError, \ ("invalid long option name '%s' " + "(must be letters, numbers, hyphens only") % long attr_name[long] = string.translate (long, longopt_xlate) if short: short_opts.append (short) short2long[short[0]] = long # end loop over 'options' short_opts = string.join (short_opts) try: (opts, args) = getopt.getopt (args, short_opts, long_opts) except getopt.error, msg: raise DistutilsArgError, msg for (opt, val) in opts: if len (opt) == 2 and opt[0] == '-': # it's a short option opt = short2long[opt[1]] elif len (opt) > 2 and opt[0:2] == '--': opt = opt[2:] else: raise RuntimeError, "getopt lies! (bad option string '%s')" % \ opt attr = attr_name[opt] if takes_arg[opt]: setattr (object, attr, val) else: if val == '': setattr (object, attr, 1) else: raise RuntimeError, "getopt lies! (bad value '%s')" % value # end loop over options found in 'args' return args # end fancy_getopt()