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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/util.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 96266d2..2487f6d 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