R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:

Note that list2cmdline does correct quoting (which includes the "s) if you are 
passing the string directly to a program.  In that case cmd.exe's 
metacharacters aren't special.  (As I noted in issue 8972, I believe that 
list2cmdline's current quoting of '|' characters is in error).

Perhaps a canonical list2cmdline actually belongs in shutil?

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