IPython.utils._process_common:arg_split

Extended Summary

This is a modified version of the standard library's shlex.split() function, but with a default of posix=False for splitting, so that quotes in inputs are respected.

if strict=False, then any errors shlex.split would raise will result in the unparsed remainder being the last element of the list, rather than raising. This is because we sometimes use arg_split to parse things other than command-line args.