[Python-checkins] Add docstring for shlex.split (GH-16740) (GH-17013)

[Vinay Sajip]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c1ebe6a1259ce988dc7d1fc547386b142dfe4364
commit: c1ebe6a1259ce988dc7d1fc547386b142dfe4364
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>
date: 2019-10-31T12:50:04Z
summary:

Add docstring for shlex.split (GH-16740) (GH-17013)

(cherry picked from commit 65c7382c47af07aea5c1ce86b76cf7f4b6acaaa2)

Co-authored-by: MaT1g3R <peijun.ma at protonmail.com>

files:
M Lib/shlex.py

diff --git a/Lib/shlex.py b/Lib/shlex.py
index ae0f5ddec1871..c817274583135 100644
--- a/Lib/shlex.py
+++ b/Lib/shlex.py
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ def __next__(self):
         return token
 
 def split(s, comments=False, posix=True):
+    """Split the string *s* using shell-like syntax."""
     lex = shlex(s, posix=posix)
     lex.whitespace_split = True
     if not comments: