--- /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current//lib/python2.7/argparse.py 2014-09-17 18:56:24.000000000 +0400 +++ argparse.py 2014-09-17 19:26:33.000000000 +0400 @@ -2089,7 +2089,7 @@ return None # if it contains a space, it was meant to be a positional - if ' ' in arg_string: + if ' ' in arg_string and arg_string[0] not in self.prefix_chars: return None # it was meant to be an optional but there is no such option