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Re: [Xen-devel] xm create option parsing..

To: Mike Wray <mike.wray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xm create option parsing..
From: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:59:13 +0100
Cc: Mike Wray <mike.wray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:59:14 +0100
Envelope-to: Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:16:14 BST." <410A11DE.6080809@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Each subcommand is responsible for parsing its own options, so
> > we could get 'xm create' etc. to allow options after the args.
> > I'll make the change.
> 
> Oops. The gnu-style getopt parsing is a Python 2.3 feature - not
> available in 2.2. So we can't enable it at the moment.

That's a bind. I'm going to have to cave in and switch to 2.3 at
some point, but I'd like to hold out for a while longer.

'create' is the only sub command that really suffers from this,
so could we just temporally hack the parsing to call getopt again
on the arguments[1:] and append to the list? Not pretty, but...

Ian