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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2017-01-27 13:04:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2017-01-27 13:04:33 +0000 |
| commit | 6ccbbb38caa79f9eb9b93b5767f3787fc80cbac1 (patch) | |
| tree | ccdce49f37c6aa3800cba1f101e823f561777357 | |
| parent | 49851a445bdbd7783f031fbb3e6972b55b885316 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-6ccbbb38caa79f9eb9b93b5767f3787fc80cbac1.tar.gz | |
Fixes #28784: Clarified use of shlex.shlex with punctuation_chars.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/shlex.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shlex.rst b/Doc/library/shlex.rst index 4926f04d42..55012f80e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shlex.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shlex.rst @@ -411,4 +411,6 @@ which characters constitute punctuation. For example:: >>> list(s) ['~/a', '&&', 'b-c', '--color=auto', '||', 'd', '*.py?'] - +For best effect, ``punctuation_chars`` should be set in conjunction with +``posix=True``. (Note that ``posix=False`` is the default for +:class:`~shlex.shlex`.) |