up2date --help broken?

[Folke Lemaitre]

Performing up2date --help gives me allways the following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1248, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 355, in main
    (options, pkgNames) = optparser.parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1129, in parse_args
    stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1169, in _process_args
    self._process_long_opt(rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1244, in _process_long_opt
    option.process(opt, value, values, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 611, in process
    return self.take_action(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 632, in take_action
    parser.print_help()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 89, in print_help
    OptionParser.print_help(self, file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1370, in print_help
    file.write(self.format_help())
TypeError: descriptor 'write' requires a 'file' object but received a 'str'

,Folke