Sanitising arguments to shell commands

[Ben Finney]

Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:

> module shlex — Simple lexical analysis
> New in version 1.5.2.
> "The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical analyzers for simple
> syntaxes resembling that of the Unix shell."

Exactly what I needed:

>>> import shlex
>>> user_configured_args = "--baz 'crunch cronch' --wobble"
>>> filenames = ["spam.txt", "beans.txt"]
>>> command_args = ["foo", "--bar"]
>>> command_args.extend(shlex.split(user_configured_args))
>>> command_args.extend(filenames)
>>> command_args
['foo', '--bar', '--baz', 'crunch cronch', '--wobble', 'spam.txt', 'beans.txt']

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Ben Finney