Customized command line parsing in Python

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Published on 2008-10-01T09:35:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 14:23 UTC
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I'm writing a shell for a project of mine, which by design parses commands that looks like this:

COMMAND_NAME ARG1="Long Value" ARG2=123 [email protected]

My problem is that Python's command line parsing libraries (getopt and optparse) forces me to use '-' or '--' in front of the arguments. This behavior doesn't match my requirements.

Any ideas how can this be solved? Any existing library for this?

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