bug with command line option - in 1.5.2?

[Mark Jackson]

"Travis Hume" <travis.hume at tenzing.com> writes:
> Given a simple python script
> 
> 
> 	import sys
> 	print sys.argv[1]
> 
> 
> Shouldn't the command
> 
> 	python - foo < testpy.py
> 
> print the word foo to stdout?  Instead I'm getting this
> 
> 	~/tmp >python - foo < testpy.py
> 	python: can't open file 'foo'
> 	~/tmp >

Both "python - foo < testpy.py" and "python testpy.py foo" work for me
(1.5.2 on Solaris 5.6):

    yngvi> python - foo < testpy.py
    foo
    yngvi> python testpy.py cat
    cat

Does the latter work for you?

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