From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:08:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [3.13] Doc: Recommend shlex.quote alongside pipes removal (GH-126570) (#126820) X-Git-Tag: v3.13.1~110 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94e536e283c2b6a85f5aa4d1806da1baf8d103bb;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.13] Doc: Recommend shlex.quote alongside pipes removal (GH-126570) (#126820) Doc: Recommend shlex.quote alongside pipes removal (GH-126570) One of the most common reasons I see the old `pipes` module still in use when porting to Python 3.13 is for the undocumented `pipes.quote` function, which can easily be replaced with `shlex.quote`. I think it's worth specifically calling this out, since being directed to the `subprocess` module would be confusing in this case. (cherry picked from commit 73e34b680852794d110cd806505b3d74d9d593db) Co-authored-by: Colin Watson --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index d4bae1fed0b8..237b1d5f6426 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -1568,6 +1568,8 @@ and are now removed: For audio playback, use the :pypi:`pygame` library from PyPI instead. * :mod:`!pipes`: Use the :mod:`subprocess` module instead. + Use :func:`shlex.quote` to replace the undocumented ``pipes.quote`` + function. * :mod:`!sndhdr`: The :pypi:`filetype`, :pypi:`puremagic`, or :pypi:`python-magic` libraries should be used as replacements.