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Re: Debugging automatic quotation in subprocess.Popen()

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by: Chris Angelico - Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:27 UTC

On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 at 08:24, <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to improve my understanding about how subprocess.Popen() does
> quote arguments. I have special case here.
>
> Simple example:
> Popen(['ls', '-l']) results on a shell in "ls -l" without quotation.
>
> Quotes are added if they are needed:
> Popen(['ls', 'folder with blank']) results on a shell in
> "ls 'folder with blank'".
>
> Am I right so far with the basics?
>
> Is there a way to be sure and to debug how Popen() give it to the shell?

That's kinda looking at it backwards; the shell first splits the
command into a list of arguments, and then runs it. Python has a
module that is capable of doing similar sorts of work:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html

That may be helpful if you want to give the user something to copy and paste.

ChrisA

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