[Python-Dev] shellwords (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:11:23 -0400

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>:

Gustavo Niemeyer writes: > Ok, I'll check if there's an easy way to "turn" shlex into shellwords.

Is there any real objection to simply fixing shlex to get it right? I'm guessing that the divergence from shell quoting was more a matter of implementation expedience and a feeling that it was "good enough" for whatever original application it was written for.

That is correct. I originally wrote shlex as the parser logic for a .netrc module. I would have no intrinsic objection to having this behavior fixed, though there is of course the general problem of how much we value not breaking old code.

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