from optparse import Option, OptionParser, _match_abbrev # This case-insensitive option parser relies on having a # case-insensitive dictionary type available. Here's one # for Python 2.2. Note that a *real* case-insensitive # dictionary type would also have to implement __new__(), # update(), and setdefault() -- but that's not the point # of this exercise. class caseless_dict (dict): def __setitem__ (self, key, value): dict.__setitem__(self, key.lower(), value) def __getitem__ (self, key): return dict.__getitem__(self, key.lower()) def get (self, key, default=None): return dict.get(self, key.lower()) def has_key (self, key): return dict.has_key(self, key.lower()) class CaselessOptionParser (OptionParser): def _create_option_list (self): self.option_list = [] self._short_opt = caseless_dict() self._long_opt = caseless_dict() self._long_opts = [] self.defaults = {} def _match_long_opt (self, opt): return _match_abbrev(opt.lower(), self._long_opt.keys()) if __name__ == "__main__": from optik.errors import OptionConflictError # test 1: no options to start with parser = CaselessOptionParser() try: parser.add_option("-H", dest="blah") except OptionConflictError: print "ok: got OptionConflictError for -H" else: print "not ok: no conflict between -h and -H" parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="file") #print `parser.get_option("-f")` #print `parser.get_option("-F")` #print `parser.get_option("--file")` #print `parser.get_option("--fIlE")` (options, args) = parser.parse_args(["--FiLe", "foo"]) assert options.file == "foo", options.file print "ok: case insensitive long options work" (options, args) = parser.parse_args(["-F", "bar"]) assert options.file == "bar", options.file print "ok: case insensitive short options work"