argparse

Overview ¶

Package argparse splits payload metadata strings into tokens with shell-style quoting so values containing spaces (passwords, etc.) survive intact.

Rules:

• whitespace (space/tab) separates tokens
• 'single-quoted' preserves every byte literally until the next '
• "double-quoted" preserves bytes, but \\ and \" are unescaped
• \X outside any quote yields X (including \ to quote a space)
• unterminated quotes extend to end of input (lenient, matches user intent)