In article <aanlktik8e7h8-tqw2=f5f30uke_d99yytu=0dvylk...@mail.gmail.com>, 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.
The subprocess doc show how to use shlex to parse a shell-like command string. I'm not sure I understand your use case but is there a reason you can't use 'shell=False' and set up the arguments yourself, thus avoiding the need for escapes? Even if you really need to have a shell execute the string, you should be able to set up the arguments and call the shell directly. http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
