Be slightly nicer when option parsing fails

diff --git a/curses-crossword.py b/curses-crossword.py
index 92f9b926394fa9ee8df623d348cd0715c4c2ff10..19ee754ef125f87a3bcf9692701ce1fd6dbd1c2e 100644 (file)
--- a/curses-crossword.py
+++ b/curses-crossword.py
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ except:
 
 filename = None
 
-(options, args) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "f:", "file=")
+try:
+    (options, args) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "f:", "file=")
+except getopt.GetoptError, err:
+    print str(err)
+    sys.exit(2)
 
 for option in options:
     if option[0] == "-f" or option[0] == "--file":