[New-bugs-announce] [issue28811] Make pathlib.PurePath.__str__ use shlex.quote

Ram Rachum report at bugs.python.org
Sun Nov 27 04:33:13 EST 2016


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 might have been able to remove the str from there if #28623 wasn't rejected.)

I wish I could do this: 

    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {path}')
    
But since my path has a space, that would only be possible if PurePath.__str__ were to use shlex.quote, and put quotes around my path (only if it includes a space).

What do you think about that?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 281812
nosy: cool-RR, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make pathlib.PurePath.__str__ use shlex.quote
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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