From 8b2b75692a7f18ecaf123aa429096c1c9b439b15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:11:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Backport r66804: #1415508 from Rocky Bernstein: add docstrings for enable_interspersed_args(), disable_interspersed_args() --- Lib/optparse.py | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py index 5aa3b967b0..d41ad3d61e 100644 --- a/Lib/optparse.py +++ b/Lib/optparse.py @@ -1281,9 +1281,19 @@ class OptionParser (OptionContainer): self.usage = usage def enable_interspersed_args(self): + """Set parsing to not stop on the first non-option, allowing + interspersing switches with command arguments. This is the + default behavior. See also disable_interspersed_args() and the + class documentation description of the attribute + allow_interspersed_args.""" self.allow_interspersed_args = True def disable_interspersed_args(self): + """Set parsing to stop on the first non-option. Use this if + you have a command processor which runs another command that + has options of its own and you want to make sure these options + don't get confused. + """ self.allow_interspersed_args = False def set_process_default_values(self, process): -- 2.50.1