Parsing a search string

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

M.E.Farmer wrote:
> As I noted before shlex requires a file like object or a open file .
> py> import shlex
> py> a = shlex.shlex('fgfgfg dgfgfdgfdg')
> py> a.get_token()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> File ".\shlex.py", line 74, in get_token
> raw = self.read_token()
> File ".\shlex.py", line 100, in read_token
> nextchar = self.instream.read(1)
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'

Which Python version are you using?

The docs say that since Py2.3 strings are accepted.

regards,
Reinhold