[New-bugs-announce] [issue7476] pipes.quote does not handle zero-length args correctly

[John Wiseman]

New submission from John Wiseman <jjwiseman at gmail.com>:

In python 2.5.2, I believe pipes.quote gives the wrong result for zero-
length arguments.

>>> from pipes import quote
>>> args = ['arg1', '', 'arg3']
>>> print 'mycommand %s' % (' '.join(quote(arg) for arg in args))
mycommand arg1  arg3

I think the result should be something like
mycommand arg1 '' arg3

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 96225
nosy: jjwiseman
severity: normal
status: open
title: pipes.quote does not handle zero-length args correctly
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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