This function used to live as pipes.quote, where it was undocumented but
used anyway.  (An alias still exists for backward compatibility.)  The
tests have been moved as is, but the code of the function was changed to
use a regex instead of a loop with string comparisons (at Ian Bicking’s
suggestion).  I’m terrible at regexes, so any feedback is welcome.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r85861 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-10-27 20:52:48 +0200 (mer., 27 oct. 2010) | 3 lines

  Recode modules from latin-1 to utf-8
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Revert -r82559;  it's not clear that this is the right thing to do, and the change obscures the original intentions.

I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55636 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:06:39 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 149 lines

  Merged revisions 55506-55635 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55507 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-22 07:28:17 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Remove the "panel" module doc file which has been ignored since 1994.
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    r55522 | mark.hammond | 2007-05-22 19:04:28 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Remove definition of PY_UNICODE_TYPE from pyconfig.h, allowing the
    definition in unicodeobject.h to be used, giving us the desired
    wchar_t in place of 'unsigned short'.  As discussed on python-dev.
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    r55525 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:35:32 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 6 lines

    Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
    deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.

    This patch is mostly from Anthony.  I tweaked some format and added
    a little doc.
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    r55527 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:57:35 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Whitespace cleanup
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    r55528 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:58:36 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Add a bunch more deprecation warnings for builtins that are going away in 3.0
  ........
    r55549 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-24 09:49:29 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
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    r55550 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-24 10:33:33 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix parameter passing.
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    r55555 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 10:50:54 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 6 lines


    Added an optional timeout parameter to urllib.ftpwrapper, with tests
    (for this and a basic one, because there weren't any). Changed also
    NEWS, but didn't find documentation for this function, assumed it
    wasn't public...
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    r55563 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 13:01:59 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Removed the .recv() in the test, is not necessary, and was
    causing problems that didn't have anything to do with was
    actually being tested...
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    r55564 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 13:51:19 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 5 lines


    Let's see if reading exactly what is written allow this live
    test to pass (now I know why there were so few tests in ftp,
    http, etc, :( ).
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    r55567 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 20:10:28 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Trying to make the tests work in Windows and Solaris, everywhere
    else just works
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    r55568 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 20:47:19 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Fixing stupid error, and introducing a sleep, to see if the
    other thread is awakened and finish sending data.
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    r55569 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 21:20:22 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Commenting out the tests until find out who can test them in
    one of the problematic enviroments.
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    r55570 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-24 22:13:40 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Get test passing again by commenting out the reference to the test class.
  ........
    r55575 | vinay.sajip | 2007-05-25 00:05:59 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line

    Updated docstring for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
  ........
    r55576 | vinay.sajip | 2007-05-25 00:06:55 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line

    Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
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    r55592 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-25 13:17:15 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Remove direct call's to file's constructor and replace them with calls to
    open() as ths is considered best practice.
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    r55601 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-05-26 12:19:50 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Remove the rgbimgmodule from PCBuild8
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    r55602 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-05-26 12:31:39 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Include <windows.h> after python.h, so that WINNT is properly set before windows.h is included.  Fixes warnings in PC builds.
  ........
    r55603 | walter.doerwald | 2007-05-26 14:04:13 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix typo.
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    r55604 | peter.astrand | 2007-05-26 15:18:20 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Applied patch 1669481, slightly modified: Support close_fds on Win32
  ........
    r55606 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-26 21:08:54 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Add the new function object attribute names from py3k.
  ........
    r55617 | lars.gustaebel | 2007-05-27 12:49:30 -0700 (Sun, 27 May 2007) | 20 lines

    Added errors argument to TarFile class that allows the user to
    specify an error handling scheme for character conversion. Additional
    scheme "utf-8" in read mode. Unicode input filenames are now
    supported by design. The values of the pax_headers dictionary are now
    limited to unicode objects.

    Fixed: The prefix field is no longer used in PAX_FORMAT (in
    conformance with POSIX).
    Fixed: In read mode use a possible pax header size field.
    Fixed: Strip trailing slashes from pax header name values.
    Fixed: Give values in user-specified pax_headers precedence when
    writing.

    Added unicode tests. Added pax/regtype4 member to testtar.tar all
    possible number fields in a pax header.

    Added two chapters to the documentation about the different formats
    tarfile.py supports and how unicode issues are handled.
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    r55618 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-27 22:23:22 -0700 (Sun, 27 May 2007) | 1 line

    Explain when groupby() issues a new group.
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    r55634 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-28 21:01:29 -0700 (Mon, 28 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Test pre-commit hook for a link to a .py file.
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    r55635 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-28 21:02:03 -0700 (Mon, 28 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Revert 55634.
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  r55639 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:58:11 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove sys.exc_{type,exc_value,exc_traceback}
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  r55641 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:03:50 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Missed one sys.exc_type.  I wonder why exc_{value,traceback} were already gone
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  r55642 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:08:33 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Missed more doc for sys.exc_* attrs.
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  r55643 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:18:19 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove sys.exc_clear()
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  r55665 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 19:45:43 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 4 lines

  Make None, True, False keywords.
  We can now also delete all the other places that explicitly forbid
  assignment to None, but I'm not going to bother right now.
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  r55666 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 20:01:51 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Found another place that needs check for forbidden names.
  Fixed test_syntax.py accordingly (it helped me find that one).
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  r55668 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 20:41:48 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Mark None, True, False as keywords.
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  r55673 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:28:25 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Get the dis module working on modules again after changing dicts
  to not return lists and also new-style classes.  Add a test.
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  r55674 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:35:45 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Umm, it helps to add the module that the test uses
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  r55675 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:53:05 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 4 lines

  Try to fix up all the other places that were assigning to True/False.
  There's at least one more problem in test.test_xmlrpc.  I have other
  changes in that file and that should be fixed soon (I hope).
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  r55679 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-30 00:31:55 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line

  Fix up another place that was assigning to True/False.
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  r55688 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:19:47 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Ditch MimeWriter.
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  r55692 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:52:00 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the mimify module.
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  r55707 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-31 05:08:45 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport the addition of show_code() to dis.py -- it's too handy.
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  r55708 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-31 06:22:57 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 7 lines

  Fix a fairly long-standing bug in the check for assignment to None (and other
  keywords, these days).  In 2.5, you could write foo(None=1) without getting
  a SyntaxError (although foo()'s definition would have to use **kwds to avoid
  getting a runtime error complaining about an unknown keyword of course).

  This ought to be backported to 2.5.2 or at least 2.6.
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  r55724 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 19:32:41 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the cfmfile.
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  r55727 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 22:19:44 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove reload() builtin.
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  r55729 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 22:51:30 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 59 lines

  Merged revisions 55636-55728 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55637 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-29 00:16:47 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix rst markup.
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    r55638 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:51:39 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix typo in doc
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    r55671 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 21:53:41 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix indentation (whitespace only).
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    r55676 | thomas.heller | 2007-05-29 23:58:30 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix compiler warnings.
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    r55677 | thomas.heller | 2007-05-30 00:01:25 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Correct the name of a field in the WIN32_FIND_DATAA and WIN32_FIND_DATAW structures.
    Closes bug #1726026.
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    r55686 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 13:46:26 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have MimeWriter raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4 and its documentation.
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    r55690 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:48:58 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Have mimify raise a DeprecationWarning.  The docs and PEP 4 have listed the
    module as deprecated for a while.
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    r55696 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 15:24:28 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have md5 raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4.
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    r55705 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-30 21:14:22 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line

    Add some spaces in the example code.
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    r55716 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 12:20:00 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have the sha module raise a DeprecationWarning as specified in PEP 4.
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    r55719 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 12:40:42 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Cause buildtools to raise a DeprecationWarning.
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    r55721 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 13:01:11 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have cfmfile raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4.
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    r55726 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 21:56:47 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 1 line

    Mail if there is an installation failure.
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  r55730 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 23:22:07 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the code that was missed in rev 55303.
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  r55738 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-01 19:10:43 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Fix doc breakage
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  r55741 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 00:41:58 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Remove timing module (plus some remnants of other modules).
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  r55742 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 00:51:44 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Remove posixfile module (plus some remnants of other modules).
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  r55744 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 10:18:56 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Fix doc breakage.
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  r55745 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 11:32:16 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Make a whatsnew 3.0 template.
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  r55754 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 23:24:18 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  SF #1730441, os._execvpe raises UnboundLocal due to new try/except semantics
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  r55755 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 23:26:00 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Get rid of extra whitespace
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  r55794 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-06 15:29:22 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Make this compile in GCC 2.96, which does not allow interspersing
  declarations and code.
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This is undoubtedly insufficient and in some cases just as broken as before.

There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.

(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)

From SF patch #852334.

* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

  meaningful parameters.

Use isinstance(somestring, basestring) instead of type() as per PEP 8

- some very minor cleanups

mailing list, and in patch #722686.

also modified check_all function to suppress all warnings since they aren't
relevant to what this test is doing (allows quiet checking of regsub, for
instance)

    encounters a string with an unmatched quote, by adding a check for
    EOF in the 'quotes' state.

mailbox.py: Convert to 4-space indents.

This patch implements relative-path semantics for the "source" facility resembling
those of cpp(1), documents the change, and improves the shlex test main to
make it easier to test this feature.  Along the way, it fixes a name error
in the existing docs.

[Additional documentation markup changes for consistency by FLD.]

Add a convenience function to generate C-compiler style error leaders.

Added and documented the capability for shlex to handle lexical-level
inclusion and a stack of input sources.  Also, the input stream member
is now documented, and the constructor takes an optional source-filename.
The class provides facilities to generate error messages that track
file and line number.

[GvR: I changed the __main__ code so that it actually stops at EOF, as
Eric surely intended -- however it returned '' instead of the None he
was testing for.]

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.