Re: Sanitising arguments to shell commands

[Rick King]

shlex doesn't handle unicode input though, so, in general, it's not a 
good solution.

Rick King
Southfield MI
http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html

module shlex — Simple lexical analysis
New in version 1.5.2.
"The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical analyzers for simple
syntaxes resembling that of the Unix shell."
  
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