How to use optparse without the command line?

From	markolopa <marko.loparic@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	How to use optparse without the command line?
Date	2011-04-07 01:37 -0700
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Hello,

Is there support/idioms/suggestions for using optparse without a
command line?

I have a code which used to be called through subprocess. The whole
flow of the code is based on what 'options' object from optparse
contains.

Now I want to call this code without subprocessing. What I did first
was to build a "fake" command-line and use

options, args = parser.parse_args(fake_cmdline)

But I find it dumb to encode and decode a dictionary... So I would
like to know how I if there is a good way of passing a dictionary to
optparse and benefiting from its option management (check, error
detection, etc).

Thanks a lot!
Marko

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How to use optparse without the command line? markolopa <marko.loparic@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 01:37 -0700
  Re: How to use optparse without the command line? Karim <karim.liateni@free.fr> - 2011-04-08 23:58 +0200
    Re: How to use optparse without the command line? markolopa <marko.loparic@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 06:18 -0700

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