[Buildbot-devel] command in double quotes and not single quotes

Charles Lepple clepple at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 12:16:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that
> single or double quotes don't make any difference if you preserve the number
> of arguments.

True, unless you have quote marks inside the string - and at that
point, it becomes a config file parsing problem.

http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html

Note that this is different than the quoting rules used by the shell -
most shells will not expand variables inside single quotes.

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- Charles Lepple




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