> shlex.split gives me what I want ... > every doc'ed instantiation of shlex.shlex ... gives me something else ...
Aye, the discrepancies are gross & legion - presumably astonishing only newbies like me. Here's a more dramatic example: >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split("//./PhysicalDrive9 //./Cdrom9 //./Tape9 //./A:")[0] '//./PhysicalDrive9' >>> shlex.shlex("//./PhysicalDrive9 //./Cdrom9 //./Tape9 //./A:", "", >>> True).get_token() '/' >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list