Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> added the comment: The original point is basically a duplicate of issue 9338. It is undesirable behavior, I just don't know how to fix it. Patches to fix it are welcome (on issue 9338). ;-) As to documenting '--', I agree it's hidden too far down in the documentation currently. I'd be happy to approve any documentation patch that makes the '--' workaround more visible. ---------- versions: -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9182> _______________________________________