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

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:04:20 +0100

Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> writes:

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?

Yes.

Particularly the file-manipulation stuff... shutil tends to lose somewhat x-platform.

I probably first said this two or more years ago... still haven't done anythin about it :-/

Cheers, M.

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