old_contents: from typing import Tuple, List
  import shlex
  import discord
  
  
  def get_cmd(string: str) -> str:
      '''Gets the command name from a string.'''
      return string.split(' ')[0]
  
  
  def parse_prefixes(string: str, prefixes: List[str]) -> str:
      '''Cleans the prefixes off a string.'''
      for prefix in prefixes:
          if string.startswith(prefix):
              string = string[len(prefix):]
              break
  
      return str
  
  
  def get_args(msg: discord.Message) -> Tuple[str, str, Tuple[str, ...], Tuple[str, ...]]:
      '''Parses a message to get args and suffix.'''
      suffix = ' '.join(msg.suffix.split(' ', 1)[1:])
  
      clean_suffix = ' '.join(msg.clean_suffix.split(' ', 1)[1:])
  
      args = shlex.split(suffix.replace(r'\"', '\u009E').replace(r"\'", '\u009F'))
      args = [x.replace('\u009E', '"').replace('\u009F', "'") for x in args]
  
      clean_args = shlex.split(clean_suffix.replace('\"', '\u009E').replace(r"\'", '\u009F'))
      clean_args = [x.replace('\u009E', '"').replace('\u009F', "'") for x in clean_args]
  
      return suffix, clean_suffix, args, clean_args
  
new_contents: from typing import Tuple, List
  import shlex
  
  
  def get_cmd(string: str) -> str:
      '''Gets the command name from a string.'''
      return string.split(' ')[0]
  
  
  def parse_prefixes(string: str, prefixes: List[str]) -> str:
      '''Cleans the prefixes off a string.'''
      for prefix in prefixes:
          if string.startswith(prefix):
              string = string[len(prefix):]
              break
  
      return string
  
  
  def get_args(string: str) -> Tuple[str, str, Tuple[str, ...], Tuple[str, ...]]:
      '''Parses a message to get args and suffix.'''
      suffix = string.split(' ', 1)[1:]
  
      args = shlex.split(suffix.replace(r'\"', '\u009E').replace(r"\'", '\u009F'))
      args = [x.replace('\u009E', '"').replace('\u009F', "'") for x in args]
  
      return suffix, args
  
subject: Change message parsing to not break on prefixes with spaces. May find a way to bring back clean suffix and clean args.