Revert r60115
This revision introduced quoting for strings containing | based
on a misunderstanding of the commonly used quoting rules used
on Windows.
| is interpreted by cmd.exe, not by the MS C runtime argv initializer.
It only needs to be quoted if it is part of an argument passed through
cmd.exe.
See issue1300, issue7839, and issue8972.
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 115d07d..bdd116a 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -548,8 +548,8 @@
2) A string surrounded by double quotation marks is
interpreted as a single argument, regardless of white space
- or pipe characters contained within. A quoted string can be
- embedded in an argument.
+ contained within. A quoted string can be embedded in an
+ argument.
3) A double quotation mark preceded by a backslash is
interpreted as a literal double quotation mark.
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@
if result:
result.append(' ')
- needquote = (" " in arg) or ("\t" in arg) or ("|" in arg) or not arg
+ needquote = (" " in arg) or ("\t" in arg) or not arg
if needquote:
result.append('"')