A shlex instance has the following methods:
) |
''
)
in non-POSIX mode, and None
in POSIX mode).
str) |
) |
filename) |
Normally, this method first strips any quotes off the argument. If
the result is an absolute pathname, or there was no previous source
request in effect, or the previous source was a stream
(e.g. sys.stdin
), the result is left alone. Otherwise, if the
result is a relative pathname, the directory part of the name of the
file immediately before it on the source inclusion stack is prepended
(this behavior is like the way the C preprocessor handles
#include "file.h"
).
The result of the manipulations is treated as a filename, and returned as the first component of the tuple, with open() called on it to yield the second component. (Note: this is the reverse of the order of arguments in instance initialization!)
This hook is exposed so that you can use it to implement directory search paths, addition of file extensions, and other namespace hacks. There is no corresponding `close' hook, but a shlex instance will call the close() method of the sourced input stream when it returns EOF.
For more explicit control of source stacking, use the push_source() and pop_source() methods.
stream[, filename]) |
) |
[file[, line]]) |
'"%s", line %d: '
,
where the "%s" is replaced with the name of the current source
file and the "%d" with the current input line number (the
optional arguments can be used to override these).
This convenience is provided to encourage shlex users to generate error messages in the standard, parseable format understood by Emacs and other Unix tools.
Instances of shlex subclasses have some public instance variables which either control lexical analysis or can be used for debugging:
True
, tokens will only be split in whitespaces. This is useful, for
example, for parsing command lines with shlex, getting tokens
in a similar way to shell arguments.
New in version 2.3.
None
by default. If you assign a string to it,
that string will be recognized as a lexical-level inclusion request
similar to the "source" keyword in various shells. That is, the
immediately following token will opened as a filename and input taken
from that stream until EOF, at which point the close()
method of that stream will be called and the input source will again
become the original input stream. Source requests may be stacked any
number of levels deep.
1
or more, a shlex
instance will print verbose progress output on its behavior. If you
need to use this, you can read the module source code to learn the
details.
''
), in non-POSIX mode, and to None
in
POSIX mode.
New in version 2.3.
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