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diff --git a/Doc/library/getopt.rst b/Doc/library/getopt.rst index b80af01a4c..28e1cdbf33 100644 --- a/Doc/library/getopt.rst +++ b/Doc/library/getopt.rst @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ exception: empty string. Long options on the command line can be recognized so long as they provide a prefix of the option name that matches exactly one of the accepted options. For example, if *longopts* is ``['foo', 'frob']``, the - option :option:`--fo` will match as :option:`--foo`, but :option:`--f` will + option ``--fo`` will match as ``--foo``, but ``--f`` will not match uniquely, so :exc:`GetoptError` will be raised. The return value consists of two elements: the first is a list of ``(option, @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ exception: intermixed. The :func:`getopt` function stops processing options as soon as a non-option argument is encountered. - If the first character of the option string is '+', or if the environment + If the first character of the option string is ``'+'``, or if the environment variable :envvar:`POSIXLY_CORRECT` is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option argument is encountered. |