It would be convenient to be able to access the resultant options from optparse using the syntax

options['some_option']

instead of options.some_option

Or additionally it would be nice to have a way to produce a dictionary of the options.  This would be nice to have to do something to the effect of

dictOptions = options.to_dict()

obj = SomeObject(**dictOptions)

Thanks for your report and your ideas for Python :)
Some remarks:

1) New features have to target 3.2;  2.6 is the current stable version (only security and documentation fixes) and 2.7 is to be released really soon (end of the 2.x line);

2) Can you explain why options['thing'] would be more convenient than options.thing?

3) You can get a dict today with vars(options). (By the way, please open two reports for two requests in the futures.)

4) optparse is superseded by argparse, I don’t know if new features will be added to optparse.

Given that the one obvious way of using dict-style syntax given a Python object is to call vars(), I thing adding a __getitem__ is probably a bad idea.

Thanks for your help and I apologize for the unnecessary ticket.  I was unfamiliar with vars() which seems to accomplish what I wanted.

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