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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:41:21 +1000
Subject: Re: line to argv transformation
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> On 16-06-14 12:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> def shell_split(cmd):
>>     return subprocess.check_output("""python -c 'import sys;
>> print("\\0".join(sys.argv[1:]))' """+cmd,shell=True)[:-1].split("\0")
>
> Nice idea, unfortunatly it doesn't work in python3.3
>
>>>> shell_split("ls *.py")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 3, in shell_split
> TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
>>>>

Oops! I made the cardinal error of trying in one and assuming it'd
work in both. Just needs a b prefix on the split string:

def shell_split(cmd):
    return subprocess.check_output("""python -c 'import sys;
print("\\0".join(sys.argv[1:]))' """+cmd,shell=True)[:-1].split(b"\0")

You'll get back a list of byte strings, in any case. Feel free to pass
them through a decode operation, or to incorporate a .decode() into
the above stream, as you wish.

ChrisA