[issue27775] `shlex.split(None)` causes infinite loop

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

This is working as designed.  None means read from stdin.  It is already documented in a note under shlex.split, so there isn't a doc issue here either. 

(Aside: 'crash' means segfault, which this isn't.)

You could try to recast this as a feature request, but I think backward compatibility would shoot that down.  You could raise it on python-ideas if you want to, but it is quite likely that *someone* is using this feature, so I don't think it likely we'll want to change it.

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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
type: crash -> behavior

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