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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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