Changeset 285 in tailor

Timestamp:

05/07/05 03:01:24 (8 years ago)

Author:

lele@…

Hash name:

20050507010124-97f81-0da6df928335f21dfc0f3e0ce99fd1eba78e70fb

Message:

Escape some more characters
Escape also regexp metachars: maybe I should use another function to
escape the patch names that darcs treats as regular expressions, but
this seems enough for now.

File:

• vcpx/shwrap.py (modified) (2 diffs)

vcpx/shwrap.py

@@ -12 +12 @@
 
 def shrepr(str):
+    """
+    Escape an arbitrary string so that it is safe to pass it as
+    argument to a shell command.
+    """
+    
     str = '\\\\'.join(str.split('\\'))
     str = '\\"'.join(str.split('"'))
@@ -18 +23 @@
     str = '\\?'.join(str.split('?'))
     str = '\\`'.join(str.split('`'))
+    str = '\\('.join(str.split('('))
+    str = '\\)'.join(str.split(')'))
+    str = '\\['.join(str.split('['))
+    str = '\\]'.join(str.split(']'))
     
     return '"' + str + '"'