short option does not parse "=" and recognizes it as part of the option string

[likewei92]

If we have an option that can called with -x, using -x=test will give =test as x instead of test.

Using example from https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x/options/#name-your-options

test.py:

import click

@click.command()
@click.option('-s', '--string-to-echo')
def echo(string_to_echo):
    click.echo(string_to_echo)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    echo()

try running python test.py -s=test_string, the output is =test_string. Using the long name python test.py --string-to-echo=test_string gives the right output of test_string.

Environment: MacOS

• Python version: 3.11
• Click version: 8.1.3

[davidism]

That's correct, that's the semantics of short option values. = is only a separator for long options.