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  r67463 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-01 02:55:22 +0100 (Mon, 01 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  typo in comment
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  r67572 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 10:23:14 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4458: recognize "-" as an argument, not a malformed option in gnu_getopt().
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  r67576 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 13:09:41 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4529: fix parser's validation for try-except-finally statements.
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  r67628 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-07 03:16:00 +0100 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  muffed the default case
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_getopt.py b/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
index de3325d..11ae163 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_getopt.py
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@
         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', '')])