On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
>> what does append('--') do?
>
> It tells the command (python in this case) to stop processing command-line
> options for itself.
man bash:
-- A -- signals the end of options and disables further
option processing. Any arguments
after the -- are treated as filenames and arguments. An
argument of - is equivalent to --.
