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5600 :: parseopt with negative numbers as positional arguments

• pmags (orginal) [2019-11-27T05:19:56+01:00] view original

  Is there a recommended approach or workaround to get parseopt.getopt to parse negative numbers as positional arguments rather than short options?

  For example, given the following command line, getopt will treat -10 as a cmdShortOption rather than a positional argument.

  
  tempconvert -10 F --to=C
  Run

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• cblake (orginal) [2019-11-27T08:12:56+01:00] view original

  It might not be quite as CL-user transparent as what you're looking for, but having the CL user quote a space in front of the number usually works as in:

  
  tempconvert \ -10 F --to=C
  Run

  or

  
  tempconvert " -10" F --to=C
  Run

  You might need to strip the whitespace off pre-parsing depending on what integer parser you are using.

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