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

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
19 Apr 2003 12:26:15 -0400

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 12:15, Greg Ward wrote:

On 16 April 2003, Gustavo Niemeyer said: > Is there any chance of getting shellwords[1] into Python 2.3? It's very > small module with a pretty interesting functionality:

It's already there (and has been since Python 1.6), albeit with a different name and implementation: >>> import distutils.util >>> distutils.util.splitquoted('arg "arg arg" arg "arg" -o="arg arg"') ['arg', 'arg arg', 'arg', 'arg', '-o=arg arg']

Distutils has a lot of neat (undocumented ) stuff! I wonder if it makes sense to start promoting some of the more generally useful stuff up into library modules of their own?

-Barry