The shlex Module

The shlex module provides a simple lexer (also known as tokenizer) for languages based on the Unix shell syntax. Its use is demonstrated in Example 5-19.

Example 5-19. Using the shlex Module

File: shlex-example-1.py

import shlex

lexer = shlex.shlex(open("samples/sample.netrc", "r"))
lexer.wordchars = lexer.wordchars + "._"

while 1:
 token = lexer.get_token()
 if not token:
 break
 print repr(token)

'machine'
'secret.fbi'
'login'
'mulder'
'password'
'trustno1'
'machine'
'non.secret.fbi'
'login'
'scully'
'password'
'noway'

Core Modules

More Standard Modules

Threads and Processes

Data Representation

File Formats

Mail and News Message Processing

Network Protocols

Internationalization

Multimedia Modules

Data Storage

Tools and Utilities

Platform-Specific Modules

Implementation Support Modules

Other Modules



Python Standard Library
Python Standard Library (Nutshell Handbooks) with
ISBN: 0596000960
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 252
Authors: Fredrik Lundh

Flylib.com © 2008-2020.
If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net