GNU bug report logs - #25025
python-shell-calculate-command is wrong

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Reported by: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:26:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Merged with 20744

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 25025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, clement.pit <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#25025: python-shell-calculate-command is wrong
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:56:23 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:50:40 -0500
> Cc: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>, 
> 	25025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> I think the whole command should be quoted with
> >> combine-and-quote-strings to balance the call to
> >> split-string-and-unquote.
> >
> > Why not remove both of those calls?  Do you understand why they are
> > needed in that case?
> 
> Well, CMD can also come from user input, so we would need some way for
> the user to specify a list of arguments. Currently that can work by
> entering a string that would be split by split-string-and-unquote.

Why does it need to be split?  A shell command can (even should) be
handed to the shell as a single string.
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