Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com> added the comment: Two reasons: The pipes module is Unix only, but pipes.quote is useful on all platforms. Secondly pipes.quote pertains to shell command-lines, this is also the domain of shlex which already cross platform. In pipes, an import shlex.quote would more than sufficient.
If this belongs in another separate bug I shall submit one. Please advise. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9723> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com