[docs] [issue26017] Update https://docs.python.org/3/installing/index.html to always quote arguments

Senthil Kumaran report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jan 8 02:47:30 EST 2016


Senthil Kumaran added the comment:

Here is the patch with the changes suggested by Brett.

Having created this patch, I had second thoughts on this change. Folks who use pip often, usually use it without any quotes, like `pip install requests`, `pip install CherryPy`. Pinned down versions are most often required by projects and they mention it in the requirements.txt in an unquoted manner
Ref: https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
It works fine as it is not the shell which is parsing this file.

Since ">" thing parsed by shell on the command line is a special thing, why not address that scenario with more clarification, instead of quoting all the examples, which seem contrary to the common usage patterns?

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +orsenthil
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41529/Issue26017.patch

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