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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:56:49 +0200
From: Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be>
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Subject: line to argv transformation
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I am looking for an interface that takes a string as argument. The
string is to be treated as if it is a command line and transformed into
an argv list.

"ls file"   -> ['ls', 'file']
"ls *.py"   -> ['ls', 'file1.py', 'file2.py', ...]
"ls '*.py'" -> ['ls', '*.py']

Does something like this already exist? I looked around but seem to find
only things only partially do things like this, like shlex.split.

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Antoon Pardon