#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 import itertools import shlex import sys def quote(s): return "'" + s.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "\\'") + "'" def main(args): # Split each argument according to shell rules args = (shlex.split(x) for x in args) # Flatten the resulting list of lists args = itertools.chain.from_iterable(args) # Add quotes and escape embedded quotes args = (quote(x) for x in args) # Format the result print("[" + ", ".join(args) + "]") if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])