Commit b33f0c1c authored by Jean-Paul Calderone's avatar Jean-Paul Calderone

Revert r60115

This revision introduced quoting for strings containing | based
on a misunderstanding of the commonly used quoting rules used
on Windows.

| is interpreted by cmd.exe, not by the MS C runtime argv initializer.
It only needs to be quoted if it is part of an argument passed through
cmd.exe.

See issue1300, issue7839, and issue8972.
parent a37b7af4
......@@ -548,8 +548,8 @@ def list2cmdline(seq):
2) A string surrounded by double quotation marks is
interpreted as a single argument, regardless of white space
or pipe characters contained within. A quoted string can be
embedded in an argument.
contained within. A quoted string can be embedded in an
argument.
3) A double quotation mark preceded by a backslash is
interpreted as a literal double quotation mark.
......@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ def list2cmdline(seq):
if result:
result.append(' ')
needquote = (" " in arg) or ("\t" in arg) or ("|" in arg) or not arg
needquote = (" " in arg) or ("\t" in arg) or not arg
if needquote:
result.append('"')
......
......@@ -486,8 +486,6 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
'"a\\\\b\\ c" d e')
self.assertEqual(subprocess.list2cmdline(['ab', '']),
'ab ""')
self.assertEqual(subprocess.list2cmdline(['echo', 'foo|bar']),
'echo "foo|bar"')
def test_poll(self):
......
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