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diff --git a/Doc/library/shlex.rst b/Doc/library/shlex.rst index a8421fd..adc23da 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shlex.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shlex.rst @@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ The :mod:`shlex` module defines the following class: characters, those characters will be used as the punctuation characters. Any characters in the :attr:`wordchars` attribute that appear in *punctuation_chars* will be removed from :attr:`wordchars`. See - :ref:`improved-shell-compatibility` for more information. + :ref:`improved-shell-compatibility` for more information. *punctuation_chars* + can be set only upon :class:`~shlex.shlex` instance creation and can't be + modified later. .. versionchanged:: 3.6 The *punctuation_chars* parameter was added. @@ -317,8 +319,8 @@ variables which either control lexical analysis or can be used for debugging: .. attribute:: shlex.punctuation_chars - Characters that will be considered punctuation. Runs of punctuation - characters will be returned as a single token. However, note that no + A read-only property. Characters that will be considered punctuation. Runs of + punctuation characters will be returned as a single token. However, note that no semantic validity checking will be performed: for example, '>>>' could be returned as a token, even though it may not be recognised as such by shells. |