shlex.lineno Source line number (count of newlines seen so far plus one).

shlex.instream The input stream from which this shlex instance is reading characters.

shlex.quotes Characters that will be considered string quotes. The token accumulates until the same quote is encountered again (thus, different quote types protect each other as in the shell.) By default, includes ASCII single and double quotes.

shlex.read_token() Read a raw token. Ignore the pushback stack, and do not interpret source requests. (This is not ordinarily a useful entry point, and is documented here only for the sake of completeness.)

shlex.escape Characters that will be considered as escape. This will be only used in POSIX mode, and includes just '\' by default.

shlex.infile The name of the current input file, as initially set at class instantiation time or stacked by later source requests. It may be useful to examine this when constructing error messages.

shlex.eof Token used to determine end of file. This will be set to the empty string (''), in non-POSIX mode, and to None in POSIX mode.

shlex.error_leader(infile=None, lineno=None) This method generates an error message leader in the format of a Unix C compiler error label; the format is '"%s", line %d: ', where the %s is replaced with the name of the current source file and the %d with the current input line number (the optional arguments can be used to override these). This convenience is provided to encourage shlex users to generate error messages in the standard, parseable format understood by Emacs and other Unix tools.

shlex.escapedquotes Characters in quotes that will interpret escape characters defined in escape. This is only used in POSIX mode, and includes just '"' by default.

shlex.get_token() Return a token. If tokens have been stacked using push_token(), pop a token off the stack. Otherwise, read one from the input stream. If reading encounters an immediate end-of-file, eof is returned (the empty string ('') in non-POSIX mode, and None in POSIX mode).