Gabriel... I feel foolish...(and wish I had the two hours back I spent on this). :)
Thank you so much! > The result is a list containing a single string. The string contains 5 > characters: a single backslash, a question mark, three letters. The > backslash is the escape character, as in '\n' (a single character, > newline). A backslash by itself is represented (both by repr() and in > string literals) by doubling it. > > If you print the value, you'll see a single \: > > print shlex.split("'\?foo'")[0] > > -- > Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list