A script which dumps the command line passed to it

dumpargv.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''Dump the command line passed to it'''

import sys


def quote_argv(argv):
    for i in argv:
        apos = ' ' in i or '\\' in i
        yield "'"+i.replace("'", "'\\''")+"'" if apos else i.replace("'", "\\'")


def main():
    print(' '.join(quote_argv(sys.argv)))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()