Sanitising arguments to shell commands

[Chris Rebert]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ben Finney<ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Rick King <rickbking at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> shlex doesn't handle unicode input though, so, in general, it's not a
>> good solution.
>
> Argh. Is there a Python bug tracker number for fixing that?

Indeed there is:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1170

It even has a patch. I wonder why it's unapplied.

Cheers,
Chris
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