From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:52:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A few naughty external scripts do 'raise getopt.error, "blah"', and
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1990
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01892664561cab9ff9ae62c4595137d22c39ac6c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

A few naughty external scripts do 'raise getopt.error, "blah"', and
   now crash because two arguments are expected.  Add a default value
   to keep those scripts running.
---

diff --git a/Lib/getopt.py b/Lib/getopt.py
index 4285cbb284bb..04e881ec73d0 100644
--- a/Lib/getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/getopt.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import os
 class GetoptError(Exception):
     opt = ''
     msg = ''
-    def __init__(self, msg, opt):
+    def __init__(self, msg, opt=''):
         self.msg = msg
         self.opt = opt
         Exception.__init__(self, msg, opt)