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

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer@conectiva.com
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:03:35 -0300

Great! I'll work on it.

How should we do to avoid compatibility problems? Some solutions that come into my mind are: - Forget about it completely and fix the syntax handling to be posix compliant. - Create a subclass of shlex, or a completely different class (shlexposix?) depending on how much can be reused. - Add a flag to the constructor.

Thinking further about this, I belive there's a better solution. I'll write different functions (probably read_word()/get_word()) with the new behavior.

-- Gustavo Niemeyer

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