From 7eded566a4233599115ff8b80c806a3d5e4bd738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Roitman <shura@gramps-project.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:21:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Unknown option handling

svn: r1551
---
 src/gramps_main.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gramps_main.py b/src/gramps_main.py
index f480edd02..5ff239465 100755
--- a/src/gramps_main.py
+++ b/src/gramps_main.py
@@ -142,8 +142,14 @@ class Gramps:
 
         self.cl = 1
         if args:
-            options,leftargs = getopt.getopt(args,
-                const.shortopts,const.longopts)
+            try:
+                options,leftargs = getopt.getopt(args,
+                    const.shortopts,const.longopts)
+            except getopt.GetoptError,msg:
+                print "Error: %s. Exiting." % msg
+                os._exit(1)
+            except:
+                print "Error parsing arguments: %s " % args
             if leftargs:
                 print "Unrecognized option: %s" % leftargs[0]
                 os._exit(1)