Create FAQ of common gotchas, have URLs to the most common ones listed as part of the Exception message about sh HOT 7 CLOSED

did you try this ?
change this line in pbs.py:

processed_args = shlex.split(" ".join(processed_args), posix=True)

and then http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html#shlex.shlex.escape can kick in:

cc(add_component='\\"checker checker01 10.10.10.105:5000\\"')

maybe when you doing kwargs to command you should do that by default..

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posix is True by default on shlex.split, if I remember correctly. But here's the result:

In [4]: shlex.split("--derp=%s" % '\\"1 2 3\\"', posix=True)
Out[4]: ['--derp="1', '2', '3"']

But this works:

In [7]: shlex.split("--derp %s" % '\"1 2 3\"', posix=True)
Out[7]: ['--derp', '1 2 3']

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yeah you are right about posix is True by default...

but in my windows test case
this is the command i want todo:
dir /b /a | find /c /v ""

so I have todo it like that:

find(dir("/b", "/a"),'/c', '/v','\\"\\"'))

for shlex not to drop my ""
maybe that something else that need to be documented

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as for your case:

                else: arg = '--%s="%s"' % (k, v)

I think that will enable you to use shlex.split with no harm...

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@fruch If I do your way and have a v of "test"", I get "ValueError: No closing quotation". But you're on the right track...using repr() works:

else: arg = "--%s=%r" % (k, v)

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please also include what the heck "pbs" stands for in the faq :-)

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@agrover ha! Python (in) Bash Scripts. This was from its early days when it did some (admittedly ugly) things to emulate the look of a bash script, but with the facilities of python. It's a nice short name though, so I kept it :)

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