Question

My code portion looks like:

 parser.add_option("-h", "--help","-?",
                   action = "help",
                   help= """Print the help of the scipt"""
                 )

When I am trying to print the options available for the script, it returns an empty array.

  optlist = [x.get_opt_string() for x in parser._get_all_options()[1:]]
  print optlist

Printing optlist prints an empty array ->
[ ].

I need to print an array with all the available options. In this case, an array that stores values: -h, –help and -?

Answer 1

In python 2.6.5 optparse objects have undocumented attributes _short_opts and _long_opts. For a bumpy list

[x._short_opts + x._long_opts for x in parser._get_all_options()]

Using join list of lists in python to flatten the list

sum([x._short_opts + x._long_opts for x in parser._get_all_options()],[])