Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt.

Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex

@@ -55,6 +55,18 @@ thus allowing multiple occurrences.  Long and short options may be
 mixed.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{gnu_getopt}{args, options\optional{, long_options}}
+This function works like \function{getopt()}, except that GNU style
+scanning mode is used by default. This means that option and
+non-option arguments may be intermixed. The \function{getopt()}
+function stops processing options as soon as a non-option argument is
+encountered.
+
+If the first character of the option string is `+', or if the
+environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, then option processing
+stops as soon as a non-option argument is encountered.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{GetoptError}
 This is raised when an unrecognized option is found in the argument
 list or when an option requiring an argument is given none.

Lib/getopt.py

@@ -5,20 +5,36 @@
 function (including the special meanings of arguments of the form `-'
 and `--').  Long options similar to those supported by GNU software
 may be used as well via an optional third argument.  This module
-provides a single function and an exception:
+provides two functions and an exception:
 
 getopt() -- Parse command line options
+gnu_getopt() -- Like getopt(), but allow option and non-option arguments
+to be intermixed. 
 GetoptError -- exception (class) raised with 'opt' attribute, which is the
 option involved with the exception.
 """
 
 # Long option support added by Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>.
-
+#
 # Gerrit Holl <gerrit@nl.linux.org> moved the string-based exceptions
 # to class-based exceptions.
+#
+# Peter Åstrand <astrand@lysator.liu.se> added gnu_getopt().
+#
+# TODO for gnu_getopt():
+#
+# - GNU getopt_long_only mechanism
+# - allow the caller to specify ordering
+# - RETURN_IN_ORDER option
+# - GNU extension with '-' as first character of option string
+# - optional arguments, specified by double colons
+# - a option string with a W followed by semicolon should
+#   treat "-W foo" as "--foo"
 
 __all__ = ["GetoptError","error","getopt"]
 
+import os
+
 class GetoptError(Exception):
     opt = ''
     msg = ''
@@ -75,6 +91,56 @@ def getopt(args, shortopts, longopts = []):
 
     return opts, args
 
+def gnu_getopt(args, shortopts, longopts = []):
+    """getopt(args, options[, long_options]) -> opts, args
+
+    This function works like getopt(), except that GNU style scanning
+    mode is used by default. This means that option and non-option
+    arguments may be intermixed. The getopt() function stops
+    processing options as soon as a non-option argument is
+    encountered.
+
+    If the first character of the option string is `+', or if the
+    environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, then option
+    processing stops as soon as a non-option argument is encountered.
+    
+    """
+
+    opts = []
+    prog_args = []
+    if type(longopts) == type(""):
+        longopts = [longopts]
+    else:
+        longopts = list(longopts)
+
+    # Allow options after non-option arguments?
+    if shortopts.startswith('+'):
+        shortopts = shortopts[1:]
+        all_options_first = 1
+    elif os.getenv("POSIXLY_CORRECT"):
+        all_options_first = 1
+    else:
+        all_options_first = 0
+
+    while args:
+        if args[0] == '--':
+            prog_args += args[1:]
+            break
+
+        if args[0][:2] == '--':
+            opts, args = do_longs(opts, args[0][2:], longopts, args[1:])
+        elif args[0][:1] == '-':
+            opts, args = do_shorts(opts, args[0][1:], shortopts, args[1:])
+        else:
+            if all_options_first:
+                prog_args += args
+                break
+            else:
+                prog_args.append(args[0])
+                args = args[1:]
+
+    return opts, prog_args
+
 def do_longs(opts, opt, longopts, args):
     try:
         i = opt.index('=')

Lib/test/test_getopt.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import getopt
 from getopt import GetoptError
 from test_support import verify, verbose
+import os
 
 def expectException(teststr, expected, failure=AssertionError):
     """Executes a statement passed in teststr, and raises an exception
@@ -106,5 +107,24 @@ def expectException(teststr, expected, failure=AssertionError):
     "opts, args = getopt.getopt(cmdline, 'a:b', ['alpha', 'beta'])",
     GetoptError)
 
+# Test handling of GNU style scanning mode.
+if verbose:
+    print 'Running tests on getopt.gnu_getopt'
+cmdline = ['-a', 'arg1', '-b', '1', '--alpha', '--beta=2']
+# GNU style
+opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(cmdline, 'ab:', ['alpha', 'beta='])
+verify(opts == [('-a', ''), ('-b', '1'), ('--alpha', ''), ('--beta', '2')])
+verify(args == ['arg1'])
+# Posix style via +
+opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(cmdline, '+ab:', ['alpha', 'beta='])
+verify(opts == [('-a', '')])
+verify(args == ['arg1', '-b', '1', '--alpha', '--beta=2'])
+# Posix style via POSIXLY_CORRECT
+os.environ["POSIXLY_CORRECT"] = "1"
+opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(cmdline, 'ab:', ['alpha', 'beta='])
+verify(opts == [('-a', '')])
+verify(args == ['arg1', '-b', '1', '--alpha', '--beta=2'])
+
+
 if verbose:
     print "Module getopt: tests completed successfully."

Misc/ACKS

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Oliver Andrich
 Ross Andrus
 Jason Asbahr
 David Ascher
+Peter Åstrand
 John Aycock
 Donovan Baarda
 Alfonso Baciero

Misc/NEWS

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ Extension modules
 
 Library
 
+- getopt.gnu_getopt was added.
+
 - Stop using strings for exceptions.  String objects used for
   exceptions are now classes deriving from Exception.  The objects
   changed were: Tkinter.TclError, bdb.BdbQuit, macpath.norm_error,