Would the "shlex" module be helpful here? It is in the standard library and is (well?) maintained by ESR. It could help reduce the code inside distutils. [ I've always questioned the need for distutils' own "copy file" functions and whatnot... seems there is a bit of duplication occurring... ] Cheers, -g On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:40:05PM -0700, Greg Ward wrote:

Update of /cvsroot/python/distutils/distutils In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv28287

Modified Files: util.py Log Message: Added 'split_quoted()' function to deal with strings that are quoted in Unix shell-like syntax (eg. in Python's Makefile, for one thing -- now that I have this function, I'll probably allow quoted strings in config files too.

Index: util.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/distutils/distutils/util.py,v retrieving revision 1.36 retrieving revision 1.37 diff -C2 -r1.36 -r1.37 *** util.py 2000/06/18 15:45:55 1.36 --- util.py 2000/06/24 20:40:02 1.37 *************** *** 167,168 **** --- 167,235 ----

return error + + + # Needed by 'split_quoted()' + _wordchars_re = re.compile(r'[^\\\'\"\ ]*') + _squote_re = re.compile(r"'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'") + _dquote_re = re.compile(r'"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"') + + def split_quoted (s): + """Split a string up according to Unix shell-like rules for quotes and + backslashes. In short: words are delimited by spaces, as long as those + spaces are not escaped by a backslash, or inside a quoted string. + Single and double quotes are equivalent, and the quote characters can + be backslash-escaped. The backslash is stripped from any two-character + escape sequence, leaving only the escaped character. The quote + characters are stripped from any quoted string. Returns a list of + words. + """ + + # This is a nice algorithm for splitting up a single string, since it + # doesn't require character-by-character examination. It was a little + # bit of a brain-bender to get it working right, though... + + s = string.strip(s) + words = [] + pos = 0 + + while s: + m = _wordchars_re.match(s, pos) + end = m.end() + if end == len(s): + words.append(s[:end]) + break + + if s[end] == ' ': # unescaped, unquoted space: now + words.append(s[:end]) # we definitely have a word delimiter + s = string.lstrip(s[end:]) + pos = 0 + + elif s[end] == '\\': # preserve whatever is being escaped; + # will become part of the current word + s = s[:end] + s[end+1:] + pos = end+1 + + else: + if s[end] == "'": # slurp singly-quoted string + m = _squote_re.match(s, end) + elif s[end] == '"': # slurp doubly-quoted string + m = _dquote_re.match(s, end) + else: + raise RuntimeError, \ + "this can't happen (bad char '%c')" % s[end] + + if m is None: + raise ValueError, \ + "bad string (mismatched %s quotes?)" % s[end] + + (beg, end) = m.span() + s = s[:beg] + s[beg+1:end-1] + s[end:] + pos = m.end() - 2 + + if pos >= len(s): + words.append(s) + break + + return words + + # split_quoted ()

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