From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:38:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix so 'split_quoted()' handles any whitespace delimiter (not just space).
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~540
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b042ded19bc7efa43551da297c29dc142b7d73c;p=python

Fix so 'split_quoted()' handles any whitespace delimiter (not just space).
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 96266d266e..2487f6dab6 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def grok_environment_error (exc, prefix="error: "):
 
 
 # Needed by 'split_quoted()'
-_wordchars_re = re.compile(r'[^\\\'\"\ ]*')
+_wordchars_re = re.compile(r'[^\\\'\"%s ]*' % string.whitespace)
 _squote_re = re.compile(r"'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'")
 _dquote_re = re.compile(r'"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"')
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def split_quoted (s):
             words.append(s[:end])
             break
 
-        if s[end] == ' ':               # unescaped, unquoted space: now
+        if s[end] in string.whitespace: # unescaped, unquoted whitespace: now
             words.append(s[:end])       # we definitely have a word delimiter
             s = string.lstrip(s[end:])
             pos = 0