[New-bugs-announce] [issue28817] Provide method PurePath.quote() that calls shlex.quote

[Ram Rachum]

New submission from Ram Rachum:

I have a a PurePath object like so:

    path = PurePath('/home/my awesome user/file.txt')

I'm SSHing into a server and I want to remove the file. So I have to do this: 

    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {shlex.quote(str(path))}')
    
Which is really long and ugly. 

I suggested in issue28623 that shlex.quote could just take a Path argument, and in issue28811 that __str__ would use shlex.quote, and it was rejected too. 

My next suggestion: Implement PurePath.quote() method that calls shlex.quote() on the path. What do you think?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 281858
nosy: cool-RR, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide method PurePath.quote() that calls shlex.quote
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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