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Re: Weird bahaviour from shlex - line no

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Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> writes:

> Dave Angel wrote:
>
>> On 28/9/2013 02:26, Daniel Stojanov wrote:
>> 
>>> Can somebody explain this. The line number reported by shlex depends
>>> on the previous token. I want to be able to tell if I have just popped
>>> the last token on a line.
[...]
> The explanation seems obvious: a word may be continued by the next character 
> if that is in wordchars, so the parser has to look at that character. If it 
> happens to be '\n' the lineno is immediately incremented. Non-wordchars are 
> returned as single characters, so there is no need to peek ahead and the 
> lineno is not altered.
>
> In short: this looks like an implementation accident. 

I think shlex should be changed to give the line number of the start of
the token in self.lineno. It isn't hard.
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Re: Weird bahaviour from shlex - line no Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-28 16:52 +0200
  Re: Weird bahaviour from shlex - line no Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-09-28 16:59 -0400

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