[issue10322] sys.argv and quoted arguments on command line

Frank Rügheimer added the comment: You are right, it seems to work when the file is passed directly into python so the quotes are stripped somewhere before python even gets to see them. Thanks -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker &l

[issue10322] sys.argv and quoted arguments on command line

Rügheimer added the comment: 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:51:33 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) I wrote test program in C to do the same thing as before and the arguments are treated properly: > ./testcargs arg1 a

[issue10322] sys.argv and quoted arguments on command line

New submission from Rügheimer : Words in quoted command line arguments containing whitespace are split into separate entries of the argument vector sys.argv. This implemetation (quote removal + word splitting) removes information required to read string arguments passed via the command line