On 04Jan2011 12:21, Chris Weisiger <cweisi...@msg.ucsf.edu> wrote: | I want to sanitize some strings (e.g. escape apostrophes, spaces, etc.) | before passing them to the commandline via subprocess. Unfortunately I can't | seem to find any built-in function to do this. Am I really going to have to | write up my own sanitizer? Not that it'd be much effort, but I'd much rather | use an official function than risk forgetting something.
If it is for Bourne shell syntax, it's almost too simple to put in a library: put into single quotes and replace all inner single quotes with: '\'' You can play games with strings that are safe to not quote, etc but the above is very simple and reliable. Something like (untested): "'"+s.replace("'", "'\\''")+"'" Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ You Know You're in the SCA When... ...the tunes you unconsciously hum are in Latin. - Cailfind ingen Grainne _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG