[Zope3-dev] Escape Character Summary Table

[Guido van Rossum]

> Okay, so the problem here is that:
> 
> netscape -remote 'openURL(http://foo.bar/baz,spam)'
> 
> is interpreted as two arguments to openURL?  Is that correct?

Yes.

> Does quoting the URL fix it, i.e.:
> 
> netscape -remote 'openURL("http://foo.bar/baz,spam")'
> 
> And if so, is this an unacceptable cost?  Thanks.

No, it interprets the " as part of the URL.  Nice try.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)