[Python-Dev] shellwords

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Great! I'll work on it.
> 
> How should we do to avoid compatibility problems? Some solutions that
> come into my mind are:
> 
> - Forget about it completely and fix the syntax handling to be
>   posix compliant.
> 
> - Create a subclass of shlex, or a completely different class
>   (shlex_posix?) depending on how much can be reused.
> 
> - Add a flag to the constructor.

Thinking further about this, I belive there's a better solution. I'll
write different functions (probably read_word()/get_word()) with the
new behavior.

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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