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On Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:34:04 UTC+5:30, xDog Walker  wrote:
> On Monday 2012 October 01 08:35, Hans Mulder wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, there is no Python module that can read shell syntax.
> 
> 
> 
> The stdlib's shlex might be that module.
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> strainers.

shlex can only split shell code into tokens.