# Module and documentation by Eric S. Raymond, 21 Dec 1998 import sys, os, string class shlex: "A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes." def __init__(self, instream=None): if instream: self.instream = instream else: self.instream = sys.stdin self.commenters = '#' self.wordchars = 'abcdfeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_' self.whitespace = ' \t\r\n' self.quotes = '\'"' self.state = ' ' self.pushback = []; self.lineno = 1 self.debug = 0 self.token = '' def push_token(self, tok): "Push a token onto the stack popped by the get_token method" if (self.debug >= 1): print "Pushing " + tok self.pushback = [tok] + self.pushback; def get_token(self): "Get a token from the input stream (or from stack if it's monempty)" if self.pushback: tok = self.pushback[0] self.pushback = self.pushback[1:] if (self.debug >= 1): print "Popping " + tok return tok tok = '' while 1: nextchar = self.instream.read(1); if nextchar == '\n': self.lineno = self.lineno + 1 if self.debug >= 3: print "In state " + repr(self.state) + " I see character: " + repr(nextchar) if self.state == None: return '' elif self.state == ' ': if not nextchar: self.state = None; # end of file break elif nextchar in self.whitespace: if self.debug >= 2: print "I see whitespace in whitespace state" if self.token: break # emit current token else: continue elif nextchar in self.commenters: self.instream.readline() self.lineno = self.lineno + 1 elif nextchar in self.wordchars: self.token = nextchar self.state = 'a' elif nextchar in self.quotes: self.token = nextchar self.state = nextchar else: self.token = nextchar if self.token: break # emit current token else: continue elif self.state in self.quotes: self.token = self.token + nextchar if nextchar == self.state: self.state = ' ' break elif self.state == 'a': if not nextchar: self.state = None; # end of file break elif nextchar in self.whitespace: if self.debug >= 2: print "I see whitespace in word state" self.state = ' ' if self.token: break # emit current token else: continue elif nextchar in self.commenters: self.instream.readline() self.lineno = self.lineno + 1 elif nextchar in self.wordchars or nextchar in self.quotes: self.token = self.token + nextchar else: self.pushback = [nextchar] + self.pushback if self.debug >= 2: print "I see punctuation in word state" self.state = ' ' if self.token: break # emit current token else: continue result = self.token self.token = '' if self.debug >= 1: print "Token: " + result return result if __name__ == '__main__': lexer = shlex() while 1: tt = lexer.get_token() if tt != None: print "Token: " + repr(tt) else: break