Am 04.08.2011 10:42 schrieb Chris Rebert:
I was considering the more general case where one of the strings may have come from user input. You then need to also escape $looks_like_a_var, `some_command`, and way more other such stuff that your simple function doesn't cover.
Even these things are harmless when included in ''s. $ echo '`rm -rf .`' '$RANDOM' `rm -rf .` $RANDOM Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list