[issue1170] shlex have problems with parsing unicode

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Fernando Perez <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Yes, sorry that I failed to mention the example I gave applies only to 2.x, not to 3.x.

Why do you expect shlex to work with unicode in 2.x?  The
documentation clearly says that the argument should be a string.
Supporting unicode is not an unreasonable RFE, but won't be considered
for 2.x anymore.

What's your take on accepting bytes in 3.x?

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