Its gets worse:
>>> from shlex import StringIO
>>> from shlex import shlex
>>> t = shlex(StringIO("2>&1"))
>>> while True:
... b = t.read_token()
... if not b: break
... print b
...
2
&
1 <----------- where's the '>' !?
>>> import shlex
>>> print shlex.split("2>&1")
['2>&1']
It strikes me that split should be behaving exactly the same way as
read_token, but that may be a misunderstanding on my part of what split
is doing.
However, it is totally bizarre that read_token discards the '>' symbol
in the string! I don't know much about lexical analysis, but it
strikes me that discarding characters is a bad thing.
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