Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: UNSURE 0.259 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.50; '*S*': 0.02; 'import': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'second': 0.26; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'this.': 0.32; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'depends': 0.38; 'somebody': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'previous': 0.38; 'explain': 0.39; 'reported': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'tell': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'popped': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=oGTyrDWF5uWK/UzOj7KiZSKpkL9obyC57YKg/+HwOks=; b=xhElRxkzrFa3jzMpW0DQZf6ww7i38DkFbo5QAogBgexMr8NT/MYONYRBqMZ3gd1y7a rhUXqgHf2lgsk4Z1RIC+L3VXzZx/cskqSerp4rv3kCDlleFJ5xKgnq3JBeXS8DZAF/X3 x5rIAEOupgykKTj9hxKHZWkmUHsc7YZkae22Ynmx0iwBQWUVfTRZEGlYHqoqFA5lghvL THw2whTXRaATEeEjSIKW9LHaiLhA3o3mZUlMvE5yFEr2a107xs0N1f0HWoxtqvIHHHMq 6nUhMVWI2QHst0HdDJm647hwceb5APwdtTHcexUSuOOvDMlGMo+MGaMGcVrW27TObMnJ YuHw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.185.166 with SMTP id fd6mr5583207wic.5.1380349584928; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:26:24 +1000 Subject: Weird bahaviour from shlex - line no From: Daniel Stojanov To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:55:29 +0200 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1380351331 news.xs4all.nl 15892 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:54930 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. import shlex first = shlex.shlex("word1 word2\nword3") print first.get_token() print first.get_token() print "line no", first.lineno, "\n" second = shlex.shlex("word1 word2,\nword3") print second.get_token() print second.get_token() print second.get_token() print "line no", second.lineno, "\n" OUTPUT: word1 word2 line no 2 word1 word2 , line no 1