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Diffstat (limited to 'cmd2/parsing.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd2/parsing.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cmd2/parsing.py b/cmd2/parsing.py index 5ec13fb7..86227b5b 100644 --- a/cmd2/parsing.py +++ b/cmd2/parsing.py @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ class StatementParser: return [] # split on whitespace - tokens = shlex.split(line, comments=False, posix=False) + tokens = StatementParser.shlex_split(line) # custom lexing tokens = self._split_on_punctuation(tokens) @@ -607,6 +607,16 @@ class StatementParser: return command, args + @staticmethod + def shlex_split(str_to_split: str) -> List[str]: + """ + A wrapper around shlex.split() that uses cmd2's preferred arguments + This allows other classes to easily call split() the same way StatementParser does + :param str_to_split: the string being split + :return: A list of tokens + """ + return shlex.split(str_to_split, comments=False, posix=False) + def _split_on_punctuation(self, tokens: List[str]) -> List[str]: """Further splits tokens from a command line using punctuation characters |