Hi all,
I tried to insert an entry in my ~/.netrc for an account having a password
that contains a space, something like:
machine my-host-name login myname password "My Password"
The standard library netrc module does not seem able to parse it, raising a
NetrcParseError. Other programs (Emacs, to mention one) do the right thing
with an entry like that.
Inspecting the module, I see that it explicitly put the quote chars (both
single and double, that is '"' and "'") in the shlex-based lexer's wordchars:
def _parse(self, file, fp, default_netrc):
lexer = shlex.shlex(fp)
lexer.wordchars += r"""!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
lexer.commenters = lexer.commenters.replace('#', '')
...
Since the method read_token() state machine gives higher priority to wordchars
over quotes, it obviously cannot parse the quoted string correctly:
...
elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape:
escapedstate = 'a'
self.state = nextchar
elif nextchar in self.wordchars:
self.token = nextchar
self.state = 'a'
elif nextchar in self.quotes:
if not self.posix:
self.token = nextchar
self.state = nextchar
...
I was not able to lookup an exact definition of netrc's syntax, so I wonder:
is the implementation somewhat flawed, or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any hint,
ciao, lele.
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