Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Add the ability to force shlex.quote to always return an escaped / quoted string, avoiding the expensive regex-ing of a straggly set of characters (currently r'[^\w@%+=:,./-]') .
Different shells have slightly different sets of special characters, eg sometimes including #, sometimes not. To quell one's pedantic paranoia of strings being incorrectly escaped due to an incomplete regex check, we extend the signature of shlex.quote in a perfectly backwards compatible way which skips the regex and goes straight to the escaping.
Changes shlex.quote's signature from
to
def quote(s, always=False):
always is of bool type, and by default is False, which produces the existing behaviour of the function.
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This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Add the ability to force
shlex.quoteto always return an escaped / quoted string, avoiding the expensive regex-ing of a straggly set of characters (currentlyr'[^\w@%+=:,./-]') .Different shells have slightly different sets of special characters, eg sometimes including
#, sometimes not. To quell one's pedantic paranoia of strings being incorrectly escaped due to an incomplete regex check, we extend the signature of shlex.quote in a perfectly backwards compatible way which skips the regex and goes straight to the escaping.Changes
shlex.quote's signature fromto
alwaysis ofbooltype, and by default isFalse, which produces the existing behaviour of the function.Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response
Linked PRs
shlex.quote#119674forcekeyword only argument toshlex.quote#148846