Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com> added the comment: Yeah, I agree it's not ideal, though note that basic unix commands have trouble with arguments staring with dashes:
$ cd -links-/ -bash: cd: -l: invalid option cd: usage: cd [-L|-P] [dir] If you're working with a file on a filesystem, the time honored workaround is to prefix with ./ $ cd ./-links-/ $ Anyway, it doesn't seem like anyone is offering to write up a patch to enable such an alternative parsing strategy, perhaps Eric's "=" workaround should be documented prominently somewhere? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9334> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
