[New-bugs-announce] [issue16186] shlex bug?

[jamesf]

New submission from jamesf:

In [112]: def test_ws(s):
   .....:     sl = shlex.shlex(s)
   .....:     sl.whitespace = "|"
   .....:     sl.whitespace_split = True
   .....:     print list(sl)


In [114]: test_ws("h w")   # works fine
['h w']

In [115]: test_ws("'h' w")  # i expected ["'h' w"] here, but why?
["'h'", ' w']

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messages: 172573
nosy: jwfang
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shlex bug?
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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