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Line to argv transformation in Python?

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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.

posted Jun 16, 2014 by Sridharan

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