Source code for hemlock.hemlock_options_parser

from optparse import (OptionParser,BadOptionError,AmbiguousOptionError)

# override OptionParser to ignore unknown arguments
# enables OptionParser to work without requiring Hemlock args to be processed by OptionParser
class PassThroughOptionParser(OptionParser):
    """
    An unknown option pass-through implementation of OptionParser.

    When unknown arguments are encountered, bundle with largs and try again,
    until rargs is depleted.

    sys.exit(status) will still be called if a known argument is passed
    incorrectly (e.g. missing arguments or bad argument types, etc.)
    """
    def _process_args(self, largs, rargs, values):
        while rargs:
            try:
                OptionParser._process_args(self,largs,rargs,values)
            except (BadOptionError,AmbiguousOptionError), e:
                largs.append(e.opt_str)