line to argv transformation

[Antoon Pardon]

On 16-06-14 12:06, Chris Angelico wrote:

> def shell_split(cmd):
>     return subprocess.check_output("""python -c 'import sys;
> print("\\0".join(sys.argv[1:]))' """+cmd,shell=True)[:-1].split("\0")

Nice idea, unfortunatly it doesn't work in python3.3

>>> shell_split("ls *.py")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in shell_split
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
>>>