MAINT: pipes.quote → shlex.quote

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

pipes.quote has long been deprecated, according to the pipes.quote documentation from Python 2.7.15:

Deprecated since version 2.7: Prior to Python 2.7, this function was not publicly documented. It is finally exposed publicly in Python 3.3 as the quote function in the shlex module.

and the pipes documentation from Python 3.11:

Deprecated since version 3.11, will be removed in version 3.13: The pipes module is deprecated (see PEP 594 for details). Please use the subprocess module instead.

[seberg]

Considering all of distutils is staged for removal, I am tempted to just not do this unless it's annoying.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

It's annoying in the context of #23976, where I suggest applying pyupgrade to NumPy, to enforce contemporary Python.

Ideally we could disable certain classes of suggestions or apply pyupgrade to new contributions . The former is difficult because pyupgrade is "uncompromising" like black: it has very few options and no way to disable specific classes of suggestions. I doubt the latter is possible, it's not easy to analyse a patch vs. complete Python code.

[charris]

Thanks @DimitriPapadopoulos .