On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:54 AM, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > Python 2.6/Windows: shlex.split() does not support unicode strings. Is this > simply a limitation of the current shlex implementation or is this an > intentional design decision that reflects the behavior of how the Windows > shell supports unicode values?
It's a bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue1170 Also, shlex is cross-platform; the limitation has nothing to do with Windows. As a matter of fact, the docs mention how shlex's functionality is based off of Unix and POSIX. Cheers, Chris -- Kudos for avoiding shell=True http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
