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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/getopt.py b/Lib/getopt.py
index 93777b4..13ef4d6 100644
--- a/Lib/getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/getopt.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 
         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: