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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: optparse eats $ |
| Date | Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:34:57 +0000 (UTC) |
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In <f315a5f9-b11a-48e8-b5ce-1e72dcabc161@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> tazz_ben <ben@wbpsystems.com> writes:
> So, any ideas? Why is including a $ eating both the dollar signa and the 1?
Unix command lines tend to assume any $ inside double-quotes is a shell
variable name. Try enclosing in single-quotes instead.
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optparse eats $ tazz_ben <ben@wbpsystems.com> - 2011-04-19 13:28 -0700 Re: optparse eats $ John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-04-19 20:34 +0000 Re: optparse eats $ Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-19 22:36 +0200
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