Source: python-shellescape Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Steffen Moeller Section: python Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, python3-all, python3-setuptools Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-shellescape Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-shellescape.git Homepage: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/shellescape Package: python3-shellescape Architecture: all Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: escapes characters to safely assemble command lines This python3 library helps to escape a string to safely use it as a token in a shell command. . The shellescape Python module defines the shellescape.quote() function that returns a shell-escaped version of a Python string. This is a backport of the shlex.quote() function from Python 3.4.3 that makes it accessible to users of Python 3 versions < 3.3 and all Python 2.x versions.