self.option_table.append (option)
self.option_index[long_option] = option
+
+ def has_option (self, long_option):
+ """Return true if the option table for this parser has an
+ option with long name 'long_option'."""
+ return self.option_index.has_key(long_option)
+
+ def get_attr_name (self, long_option):
+ """Translate long option name 'long_option' to the form it
+ has as an attribute of some object: ie., translate hyphens
+ to underscores."""
+ return string.translate (long_option, longopt_xlate)
+
+
def set_negative_aliases (self, negative_alias):
"""Set the negative aliases for this option parser.
'negative_alias' should be a dictionary mapping option names to
("invalid long option name '%s' " +
"(must be letters, numbers, hyphens only") % long
- self.attr_name[long] = string.translate (long, longopt_xlate)
+ self.attr_name[long] = self.get_attr_name (long)
if short:
self.short_opts.append (short)
self.short2long[short[0]] = long