Jason R. Coombs added the comment: oh. My mistake. I didn't realize the error was in 'distutils.fancy_getopt' and not in the getopt module itself. Indeed, the problem doesn't exist under getopt itself, so is specific to distutils and fancy_getopt.
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals >>> import getopt >>> getopt.getopt('-x', 'x', ('--longx',)) ([], u'-x') >>> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18936> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com