Python 2.6/Windows: shlex.split() does not support unicode strings. Is this simply a limitation of the current shlex implementation or is this an intentional design decision that reflects the behavior of how the Windows shell supports unicode values?
Specifically, it doesn't appear that subprocess.Popen() has any restrictions on unicode args, but perhaps I'm missing some edge cases where this may be true? If this is simply a limitation of the current shlex implementation, does anyone see any risks to encoding a command string using 'xmlreplace' ( command.encode( 'utf8', 'xmlreplace' ) ) in order to hide unicode chars, splitting the now ASCII string using shlex.split, and then walking the list of strings returned by shlex.split, decoding them back to Unicode ( .decode( 'utf8' ) ) before passing this list to subprocess.Popen() for execution? Thanks, Malcolm
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