Spot the bug: getoptquestion.py

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:30 pm, Oscar wrote:

> Thanks all for the input. I think it all boils down to: "If you don't
> want a space in your long_option, don't put a space in there".


No, I don't think so. I think we can do better than that:

http://bugs.python.org/issue27619


What decided it for me was that the shell getopt on my system ignores
leading and trailing spaces.




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