shlex

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python dotenv python-dotenv docker-compose docker shlex env-file

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shlex.quote output is not a valid .env: python-dotenv silently drops values with single quotes, Docker Compose rejects the whole file

A Python CLI exports secrets in a documented 'dotenv' format by printing '%s=%s' % (name, shlex.quote(value)) per line, on the assumption that shell-safe quoting is also valid .env syntax. Multi-line values (PEM keys) round-trip fine through python-dotenv 1.2.4 and Docker Compose v5.5.0 env_file ,…

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