What's the reverse of shlex.split?

Question

How can I reverse the results of a shlex.split? That is, how can I obtain a quoted string that would \"resemble that of a Unix shell\", given a list of strings

Answer 1

There is a feature request for adding shlex.join(), which would do exactly what you ask. As of now, there does not seem any progress on it, though, mostly as it would mostly just forward to shlex.quote(). In the bug report, a suggested implementation is mentioned:

' '.join(shlex.quote(x) for x in split_command)

See https://bugs.python.org/issue22454