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Asked: 2026-05-31T01:28:14+00:00

I have a script that takes sys.argv and the input may contain special characters

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I have a script that takes sys.argv and the input may contain special characters (semicolon). I just need the input as string, but semicolon messes everything up..

I have:

def myscript(text)
    print text


a = myscript(sys.argv[1])
print a

I try:

>>  python script.py "With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering" from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg""

I get:

'With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering'
None
bash: grippe: command not found

I just want to get the whole string into the script no matter what is inside it..

I tried:

a = myscript(repr(sys.argv[1]))
a = myscript(str(sys.argv[1]))
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  1. Editorial Team

    it’s not a matter of python, you need to escape it in the calling shell. simply escape quotes as \" and semicolons as \;.

    $ python testme.py "With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering\" from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg\""

With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering" from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg"
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