On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> It's on par with creating a file with a name beginning with a >> hyphen, and then fiddling around with various commands as you try to >> manipulate it (tip: "rm ./-r" works); programs will happily interpret >> "-r" as an option rather than a file name, without being concerned that >> it's technically legal. > > I don't see any connection between the two.
-r is a valid file name, just as . is a valid line of input. But with the rm command, you can't provide it with -r as a file name - you have to use ./-r or somesuch, because the parser gets to it first. That's the connection. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
