[ python-Bugs-1724822 ] shlex.split problems on Windows

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Bugs item #1724822, was opened at 2007-05-24 12:56
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Geoffrey Bache (gjb1002)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: shlex.split problems on Windows

Initial Comment:
What is shlex.split supposed to do on Windows? It seems to be present but it can't handle basic Windows pathnames : shlex.split("C:\\directory\\file") returns C:directoryfile (whereas os.system happily accepts the same string).

Also, it runs in POSIX mode and there is no way to override it! Why isn't POSIX mode the default on POSIX systems and not on non-POSIX systems? Or for it to at least be possible to says shlex.split(s, posix=False)?


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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-05-24 13:09

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The docs to shlex say: "The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical
analyzers for simple syntaxes resembling that of the Unix shell."

It is not meant to be a cross-platform shell quoting handler, but an
implementation of Unix shell behavior.

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