From a07435d3e3dfee3e4d8998baa7fadbfaf46f764d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:23:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #4458: recognize "-" as an argument, not a malformed option
 in gnu_getopt().

---
 Lib/getopt.py           | 2 +-
 Lib/test/test_getopt.py | 5 +++++
 Misc/NEWS               | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/getopt.py b/Lib/getopt.py
index 04e881ec73d..7248f08a320 100644
--- a/Lib/getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/getopt.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def gnu_getopt(args, shortopts, longopts = []):
 
         if args[0][:2] == '--':
             opts, args = do_longs(opts, args[0][2:], longopts, args[1:])
-        elif args[0][:1] == '-':
+        elif args[0][:1] == '-' and args[0] != '-':
             opts, args = do_shorts(opts, args[0][1:], shortopts, args[1:])
         else:
             if all_options_first:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_getopt.py b/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
index 36d1688b03f..aac720d5a63 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ class GetoptTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(opts, [('-a', ''), ('-b', '1'),
                                 ('--alpha', ''), ('--beta', '2')])
 
+        # recognize "-" as an argument
+        opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(['-a', '-', '-b', '-'], 'ab:', [])
+        self.assertEqual(args, ['-'])
+        self.assertEqual(opts, [('-a', ''), ('-b', '-')])
+
         # Posix style via +
         opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(cmdline, '+ab:', ['alpha', 'beta='])
         self.assertEqual(opts, [('-a', '')])
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 55e123baa65..b1fe2e48e5f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
+  not a malformed option.
+
 - Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
   from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.