From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 11:37:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bugfix: it choked on an empty argument!
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.8~619
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70083dee1203992fff93c0d659df51c6286c3e19;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bugfix: it choked on an empty argument!
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diff --git a/Lib/getopt.py b/Lib/getopt.py
index 0b71d0f3a7af..7feaf9d52520 100644
--- a/Lib/getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/getopt.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ error = 'getopt error'
 
 def getopt(args, options):
     list = []
-    while args and args[0][0] == '-' and args[0] <> '-':
+    while args and args[0][:1] == '-' and args[0] <> '-':
     	if args[0] == '--':
     	    args = args[1:]
     	    break