R. David Murray added the comment:
Thanks for the report.
pipes.quote used to be an undocumented helper function in pipes. When we
decided to make it public, we moved it to the shlex module. Therefore you'll
find that as of Python 3.3 the source code has moved to shlex and it is
documented
New submission from Barry Morrison:
Documentation here: http://docs.python.org/library/pipes.html makes no mention
of quote()
But the link to Source code: Lib/pipes.py
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/pipes.py has:
267 def quote(file):
268 """Return a shell-escaped version of the fi
