Conddb tools: fix for printouts containing python-sensitive characters

[ggovi]

PR description:

In various conddb functions, user-created parameters (like comments/descriptions for Tag and GT items) may contain keys that have a reserved meaning in the python language. The present fix aims to support a proper printout, avoiding the triggering of the corresponding special treatments.
The function affected by the change are all the listing functions:
list [object], listTags, listGTs, ...

PR validation:

Integration tests

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-38140/30282

• This PR adds an extra 40KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @ggovi for master.

It involves the following packages:

• CondCore/Utilities (db)

@cmsbuild, @ggovi, @tvami, @malbouis, @francescobrivio can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mmusich this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

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[ggovi]

test parameters:

addpkg = CondTools

[ggovi]

please test

[tvami]

type bugfix

[cmsbuild]

-1

Failed Tests: UnitTests
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-43ec09/25100/summary.html
COMMIT: 5749b48
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_5_X_2022-05-30-2300/el8_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/38140/25100/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Unit Tests

I found errors in the following unit tests:

---> test SiStripDAQ_O2O_test had ERRORS

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 2 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3648315
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 8
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3648285
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 208 log files, 45 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[tvami]

+db

• the unit test failure is known and is not connected to this PR

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (but tests are reportedly failing). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

+1

[perrotta]

merge