characters, those characters will be used as the punctuation characters. Any
characters in the :attr:`wordchars` attribute that appear in
*punctuation_chars* will be removed from :attr:`wordchars`. See
- :ref:`improved-shell-compatibility` for more information.
+ :ref:`improved-shell-compatibility` for more information. *punctuation_chars*
+ can be set only upon :class:`~shlex.shlex` instance creation and can't be
+ modified later.
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
The *punctuation_chars* parameter was added.
.. attribute:: shlex.punctuation_chars
- Characters that will be considered punctuation. Runs of punctuation
- characters will be returned as a single token. However, note that no
+ A read-only property. Characters that will be considered punctuation. Runs of
+ punctuation characters will be returned as a single token. However, note that no
semantic validity checking will be performed: for example, '>>>' could be
returned as a token, even though it may not be recognised as such by shells.
punctuation_chars = ''
elif punctuation_chars is True:
punctuation_chars = '();<>|&'
- self.punctuation_chars = punctuation_chars
+ self._punctuation_chars = punctuation_chars
if punctuation_chars:
# _pushback_chars is a push back queue used by lookahead logic
self._pushback_chars = deque()
t = self.wordchars.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(punctuation_chars))
self.wordchars = self.wordchars.translate(t)
+ @property
+ def punctuation_chars(self):
+ return self._punctuation_chars
+
def push_token(self, tok):
"Push a token onto the stack popped by the get_token method"
if self.debug >= 1:
resplit = shlex.split(joined)
self.assertEqual(split_command, resplit)
+ def testPunctuationCharsReadOnly(self):
+ punctuation_chars = "/|$%^"
+ shlex_instance = shlex.shlex(punctuation_chars=punctuation_chars)
+ self.assertEqual(shlex_instance.punctuation_chars, punctuation_chars)
+ with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
+ shlex_instance.punctuation_chars = False
+
# Allow this test to be used with old shlex.py
if not getattr(shlex, "split", None):
--- /dev/null
+:attr:`shlex.shlex.punctuation_chars` is now a read-only property.