It would be nice if shell_quote also worked with iterables

[Former user]

As a workaround i can do " ".join([sarge.shell_quote(s) for s in ["cat", "/dir/with spaces/file"]]) but sarge.shell_quote(["cat", "/dir/with spaces/file"]) would be a lot nicer.

[Vinay Sajip]

One doesn't necessarily need to quote everything. What you want could be catered for using e.g. shell_format('cat {0}', '/dir/with spaces/file') which would result in "cat 'dir with spaces'".