[issue6988] shlex.split() converts unicode input to UCS-4 output with varying byte order

[Bill Fenner]

Bill Fenner <fenner at gmail.com> added the comment:

A colleague pointed out that the bad behavior was introduced in 2.5.2:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:42:03) 
[GCC 4.3.2 20080917 (Red Hat 4.3.2-4)] on linux2
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>>> import shlex
>>> shlex.split( u"Hello, World!" )
['H\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00l\x00\x00\x00l\x00\x00\x00o\x00\x00\x00,\x00\x00\x00',
'\x00\x00\x00W\x00\x00\x00o\x00\x00\x00r\x00\x00\x00l\x00\x00\x00d\x00\x00\x00!\x00\x00\x00']

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versions: +Python 2.5

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