jdjebi/winshlex

Winshlex

Alternative to shlex for easy split of windows path. Inspired by a stack overflow post.

Python package for multi-platform variant of shlex.split() for command-line splitting. For use with subprocess, for argv injection etc. Using fast REGEX.

Build with: Python 3.7.2

Installation

In your terminal execute

pip install winshlex

Usage

On windows with shlex

>>> import shlex 

>>> to_split = "C:\Users\samsung\Desktop\Dev2\package-winshlex"

>>> shlex.split()

>>> ['C:UserssamsungDesktopDev2package-winshlex']

On windows with winshlex

>>> import winshlex 

>>> to_split = "C:\Users\samsung\Desktop\Dev2\package-winshlex"

>>> winshlex.split()

>>> ['C:\\Users\\samsung\\Desktop\\Dev2\\package-winshlex']

winshlex's Issues

Cleanup: Remove files that do not require version control

The repository contains binary files that are easily regenerated locally after cloning. Add a .gitignore-file and remove all the files that are unnecessary.

Same issue as with `shlex`

I like the general idea, but the one reason I was looking for a package like yours isn't covered: winshlex also fails to deal with UNC paths, just like shlex (which works reasonable well otherwise on Windows in its current form).

For example:

from winshlex import split

print(split(r'copy "\\server\path with space\some.file" -o"\\other_server\path"'))

Result:

['copy', '\\server\\path with space\\some.file', '-o\\other_server\\path']

Note how the double backslashes before servers have been removed, just like shlex does, while Windows requires them there. On the other hand, using double forward slashes on POSIX platforms works just fine with shlex, so they're not quite equivalent.