[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-17 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 31debd0dc0dc by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.5': Issue26017 - Suggest enclosing command args in double quotes when using characters which get interpreted by shell. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/31debd0dc0dc New changeset 18ae23b69e08 by

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-17 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 668827be66d6 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Issue26017 - Suggest enclosing command args in double quotes when using characters which get interpreted by shell. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/668827be66d6 --

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-17 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Thanks for the review/comment Ezio. Agree with your suggestion and made the change accordingly. -- assignee: docs@python -> orsenthil resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-08 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: I think it's enough to add a note that says that if the argument contains > (and possibly other) special characters, then it needs to be quoted. Examples that use > should also be quoted, but not the others one. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-07 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Here is the patch with the changes suggested by Brett. Having created this patch, I had second thoughts on this change. Folks who use pip often, usually use it without any quotes, like `pip install requests`, `pip install CherryPy`. Pinned down versions are

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-05 Thread Brett Cannon
New submission from Brett Cannon: If you look at https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html it lists two commands: python -m pip install SomePackage==1.0.4# specific version python -m pip install 'SomePackage>=1.0.4' # minimum version If you notice that beyond the change from `==`

[issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

2016-01-05 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: I'd also suggest using double quotes ("); single quotes don't work on Windows. C:\>echo 'test>=test' C:\>dir /b test* test' C:\>type "test'" 'test -- nosy: +zach.ware ___ Python tracker