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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def from_string(cls, string):
 """ Construct a command spec from a simple string representing a command line parseable by shlex.split. """

        items = shlex.split(string, **cls.split_args)
        return cls(items)