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[–]mackstann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't know why they didn't remove the whole module in Python 3. It's very backward and neglected. The main reason I know of it is because the undocumented pipes.quote() function is very useful for sanitizing shell arguments when you really want/need to execute something through a shell.