> I forgot you need to escape special characters in the arguments. You > can add quoting and escape special characters at the same time with > the undocumented function pipes.quote: > > import pipes > > args = tuple(pipes.quote(arg) for arg in (arg1, arg2, arg3)) > cmd = 'python test.py %s %s %s' % args > > Notice there are no longer quotes around each %s in cmd. Python 3.3 > will have shlex.quote: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/library/shlex.html#shlex.quote
Why is ``pipes.quote`` undocumented? It's useful. -Modulok- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
