On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Ben Finney<ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: <snip> > How can I take a string that is intended to be part of a command line, > representing multiple arguments and the shell's own escape characters as > in the above example, and end up with a sane command argument list for > ‘subprocess.Popen’?
http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html module shlex — Simple lexical analysis New in version 1.5.2. "The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical analyzers for simple syntaxes resembling that of the Unix shell." Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
