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 -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ 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']