Steps to reproduce:
>>> from shlex import split
>>> line = "export F=$'\\''"
>>> split(line)
ValueError: No closing quotation

However, when printing the line

>>> print(line)
export F=$'\''

and pasting the output in bash, no further quotation marks are required.
The behavior of bash is described in its man page (line 497 for me, Chapter Quoting) and occurs also when bash is called with --posix. Therefore I guess that shlex does not reproduce the posix behavior here.

Try with `sh`:

(it prompts for continuation, I pressed ^D to end it)

$ export F=$'\''
> 
> 
> 
> 
> sh: 8: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string


dollar-sign strings are a `bash` extension, I don't think they're supported by *sh*lex (maybe if there was a bashlex module :D)

There's the `posix=False` option to `shlex.split` -- I'm not sure what it does/doesn't enable though (the docs aren't thorough here and the code is a bit non-obvious):

>>> shlex.split(s, posix=False)
['export', "F=$'\\''"]

Okay, thanks a lot. I am closing this since it is not a bug then.