R. David Murray added the comment:
Re-reading the issue I think the OP was not trying to define '-debug', but was
indeed reporting the behavior when -debug was passed to the parser. I've
committed your tests (thanks).
So we now have tests for both cases, and this issue can be closed as inv
Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 844bb753570f by R David Murray in branch 'default':
#4640: Add optparse tests for '-xxx' invalid when defining options.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/844bb753570f
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Aaron added the comment:
I came across this bug report and was unable to reproduce the described
behavior. I wrote a few test cases demonstrating that the behavior is indeed
correct. It passes both against 2.5.2 (the version described in the report)
and the lastest 2.7.
The relevant code i