def METHOD_NAME(self):
    """create the member variables, but change hyphens to
    underscores
    """
    self.option_to_cmds = {}
    for opt in self.__parser.option_list:
        cmd_name = opt._long_opts[0][2:]
        option_name = cmd_name.replace('-', '_')
        self.option_to_cmds[option_name] = cmd_name
        setattr(self, option_name, None)
    self.attr  = None