Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)

[Peter Otten]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Paulo da Silva wrote:
> 
>> Em 12-01-2014 20:29, Peter Otten escreveu:
>>> Paulo da Silva wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> but I have not tried it myself. Also, some bytes may need to be
>>>>> escaped, either to be understood by the shell, or to address security
>>>>> concerns:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since I am puting the file names between "", the only char that needs
>>>> to be escaped is the " itself.
>>> 
>>> What about the escape char?
>>> 
>> Just this fn=fn.replace('"','\\"')
>> 
>> So far I didn't find any problem, but the script is still running.
> 
> To be a bit more explicit:
> 
>>>> for filename in os.listdir():
> ...     print(template.replace("<fn>", filename.replace('"', '\\"')))
> ...
> ls "\\"; rm whatever; ls \"

The complete session:

>>> import os
>>> template = 'ls "<fn>"'
>>> with open('\\"; rm whatever; ls \\', "w") as f: pass
... 
>>> for filename in os.listdir():
...     print(template.replace("<fn>", filename.replace('"', '\\"')))
... 
ls "\\"; rm whatever; ls \"


Shell variable substitution is another problem. c.l.py is probably not the 
best place to get the complete list of possibilities.