os.system() with imbeded quotes on centos

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri Apr 5 19:53:57 EDT 2013


On 05Apr2013 16:36, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
| No need for third-party code, just use the std lib:
| http://docs.python.org/2/library/pipes.html#pipes.quote
| http://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html#shlex.quote

Ah, handy. I must say its quote quoting is kind of verbose, though.

| (But yeah, best of all is to just use `subprocess` with shell=False.)

Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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