Windows shlex fix (#2895)

docs/changelog/2635.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+When parsing command lines, use ``shlex(..., posix=True)``, even on windows platforms, since non-POSIX mode does not
+handle escape characters and quoting like a shell would. This improves cross-platform configurations without hacks or
+esoteric quoting.
+
+To make this transition easier, on Windows, the backslash path separator will not treated as an escape character unless
+it preceeds a quote, whitespace, or another backslash chracter. This allows paths to mostly be written in single or
+double backslash style.
+
+Note that **double-backslash will no longer be escaped to a single backslash in substitutions**, instead the double
+backslash will be consumed as part of command splitting, on either posix or windows platforms.
+
+In some instances superfluous double or single quote characters may be stripped from arg arrays in ways that do not
+occur in the default windows ``cmd.exe`` shell - by :user:`masenf`.

docs/config.rst

@@ -431,6 +431,16 @@ Run
       that outside of it. Therefore ``python`` translates as the virtual environments ``python`` (having the same
       runtime version as the :ref:`base_python`), and ``pip`` translates as the virtual environments ``pip``.
 
+   .. note::
+
+       ``shlex`` POSIX-mode quoting rules are used to split the command line into arguments on all
+       supported platforms as of tox 4.4.0.
+
+       The backslash ``\`` character can be used to escape quotes, whitespace, itself, and
+       other characters (except on Windows, where a backslash in a path will not be interpreted as an escape).
+       Unescaped single quote will disable the backslash escape until closed by another unescaped single quote.
+       For more details, please see :doc:`shlex parsing rules <python:library/shlex>`.
+
    .. note::
 
      Inline scripts can be used, however note these are discovered from the project root directory, and is not
@@ -795,14 +805,18 @@ through the ``{...}`` string-substitution pattern.
 
 The string inside the curly braces may reference a global or per-environment config key as described above.
 
-The backslash character ``\`` will act as an escape for a following: ``\``,
+In substitutions, the backslash character ``\`` will act as an escape when preceeding
 ``{``, ``}``, ``:``, ``[``, or ``]``, otherwise the backslash will be
 reproduced literally::
 
     commands =
         python -c 'print("\{posargs} = \{}".format("{posargs}"))'
         python -c 'print("host: \{}".format("{env:HOSTNAME:host\: not set}")'
 
+Note that any backslashes remaining after substitution may be processed by ``shlex`` during command parsing. On POSIX
+platforms, the backslash will escape any following character; on windows, the backslash will escape any following quote,
+whitespace, or backslash character (since it normally acts as a path delimiter).
+
 Special substitutions that accept additional colon-delimited ``:`` parameters
 cannot have a space after the ``:`` at the beginning of line (e.g.  ``{posargs:
 magic}`` would be parsed as factorial ``{posargs``, having value magic).

src/tox/config/loader/ini/replace.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 ARG_DELIMITER = ":"
 REPLACE_START = "{"
 REPLACE_END = "}"
-BACKSLASH_ESCAPE_CHARS = ["\\", ARG_DELIMITER, REPLACE_START, REPLACE_END, "[", "]"]
+BACKSLASH_ESCAPE_CHARS = [ARG_DELIMITER, REPLACE_START, REPLACE_END, "[", "]"]
 MAX_REPLACE_DEPTH = 100
 
 
@@ -115,11 +115,18 @@ def parse_and_split_to_terminator(
         pos = 0
 
         while pos < len(value):
-            if len(value) > pos + 1 and value[pos] == "\\" and value[pos + 1] in BACKSLASH_ESCAPE_CHARS:
-                # backslash escapes the next character from a special set
-                last_arg.append(value[pos + 1])
-                pos += 2
-                continue
+            if len(value) > pos + 1 and value[pos] == "\\":
+                if value[pos + 1] in BACKSLASH_ESCAPE_CHARS:
+                    # backslash escapes the next character from a special set
+                    last_arg.append(value[pos + 1])
+                    pos += 2
+                    continue
+                if value[pos + 1] == "\\":
+                    # backlash doesn't escape a backslash, but does prevent it from affecting the next char
+                    # a subsequent `shlex` pass will eat the double backslash during command splitting
+                    last_arg.append(value[pos : pos + 2])
+                    pos += 2
+                    continue
             fragment = value[pos:]
             if terminator and fragment.startswith(terminator):
                 pos += len(terminator)

src/tox/config/loader/str_convert.py

@@ -45,11 +45,43 @@ def to_dict(value: str, of_type: tuple[type[Any], type[Any]]) -> Iterator[tuple[
                 else:
                     raise TypeError(f"dictionary lines must be of form key=value, found {row!r}")
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _win32_process_path_backslash(value: str, escape: str, special_chars: str) -> str:
+        """
+        Escape backslash in value that is not followed by a special character.
+
+        This allows windows paths to be written without double backslash, while
+        retaining the POSIX backslash escape semantics for quotes and escapes.
+        """
+        result = []
+        for ix, char in enumerate(value):
+            result.append(char)
+            if char == escape:
+                last_char = value[ix - 1 : ix]
+                if last_char == escape:
+                    continue
+                next_char = value[ix + 1 : ix + 2]
+                if next_char not in (escape, *special_chars):
+                    result.append(escape)  # escape escapes that are not themselves escaping a special character
+        return "".join(result)
+
     @staticmethod
     def to_command(value: str) -> Command:
-        is_win = sys.platform == "win32"
+        """
+        At this point, ``value`` has already been substituted out, and all punctuation / escapes are final.
+
+        Value will typically be stripped of whitespace when coming from an ini file.
+        """
         value = value.replace(r"\#", "#")
-        splitter = shlex.shlex(value, posix=not is_win)
+        is_win = sys.platform == "win32"
+        if is_win:  # pragma: win32 cover
+            s = shlex.shlex(posix=True)
+            value = StrConvert._win32_process_path_backslash(
+                value,
+                escape=s.escape,
+                special_chars=s.quotes + s.whitespace,
+            )
+        splitter = shlex.shlex(value, posix=True)
         splitter.whitespace_split = True
         splitter.commenters = ""  # comments handled earlier, and the shlex does not know escaped comment characters
         args: list[str] = []

tests/config/loader/ini/replace/test_replace_env_var.py

@@ -17,24 +17,24 @@ def test_replace_env_set(replace_one: ReplaceOne, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> N
 
 
 def test_replace_env_set_double_bs(replace_one: ReplaceOne, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    """Double backslash should escape to single backslash and not affect surrounding replacements."""
+    """Double backslash should remain but not affect surrounding replacements."""
     monkeypatch.setenv("MAGIC", "something good")
     result = replace_one(r"{env:MAGIC}\\{env:MAGIC}")
-    assert result == r"something good\something good"
+    assert result == r"something good\\something good"
 
 
 def test_replace_env_set_triple_bs(replace_one: ReplaceOne, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    """Triple backslash should escape to single backslash also escape subsequent replacement."""
+    """Triple backslash should retain two slashes with the third escaping subsequent replacement."""
     monkeypatch.setenv("MAGIC", "something good")
     result = replace_one(r"{env:MAGIC}\\\{env:MAGIC}")
-    assert result == r"something good\{env:MAGIC}"
+    assert result == r"something good\\{env:MAGIC}"
 
 
 def test_replace_env_set_quad_bs(replace_one: ReplaceOne, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
-    """Quad backslash should escape to two backslashes and not affect surrounding replacements."""
+    """Quad backslash should remain but not affect surrounding replacements."""
     monkeypatch.setenv("MAGIC", "something good")
-    result = replace_one(r"\\{env:MAGIC}\\\\{env:MAGIC}\\")
-    assert result == r"\something good\\something good" + "\\"
+    result = replace_one(r"\\{env:MAGIC}\\\\{env:MAGIC}" + "\\")
+    assert result == r"\\something good\\\\something good" + "\\"
 
 
 def test_replace_env_when_value_is_backslash(replace_one: ReplaceOne, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:

tests/config/loader/test_str_convert.py

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
+from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set, TypeVar, Union
 
 import pytest
 
 from tox.config.loader.str_convert import StrConvert
 from tox.config.types import Command, EnvList
+from tox.pytest import MonkeyPatch, SubRequest, ToxProjectCreator
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):  # pragma: no cover (py38+)
     from typing import Literal
@@ -80,3 +82,127 @@ def test_str_convert_nok(raw: str, of_type: type[Any], msg: str, exc_type: type[
 def test_invalid_shell_expression(value: str, expected: list[str]) -> None:
     result = StrConvert().to_command(value).args
     assert result == expected
+
+
+SIMPLE_ARGS = [
+    ('foo "bar baz"', ["foo", "bar baz"]),
+    ('foo "bar baz"ext', ["foo", "bar bazext"]),
+    ('foo="bar baz"', ["foo=bar baz"]),
+    ("foo 'bar baz'", ["foo", "bar baz"]),
+    ("foo 'bar baz'ext", ["foo", "bar bazext"]),
+    ("foo='bar baz'", ["foo=bar baz"]),
+    (r"foo=\"bar baz\"", ['foo="bar', 'baz"']),
+    (r'foo="bar baz\"', ['foo="bar baz\\"']),
+    ("foo='bar baz' quuc", ["foo=bar baz", "quuc"]),
+    (r"foo='bar baz\' quuc", ["foo=bar baz\\", "quuc"]),
+    (r"foo=\"bar baz\' quuc", ['foo="bar', "baz'", "quuc"]),
+    (r"foo=\\\"bar baz\"", ['foo=\\"bar', 'baz"']),
+    (r'foo=\\"bar baz\"', [r'foo=\\"bar baz\"']),
+]
+NEWLINE_ARGS = [
+    ('foo\n"bar\nbaz"', ["foo", "bar\nbaz"]),
+]
+INI_CONFIG_NEWLINE_ARGS = [
+    ('foo\\\n    "bar\\\n    baz"', ["foobarbaz"]),  # behavior change from tox 3
+    ('foo\\\n    "bar \\\n    baz"', ["foobar baz"]),  # behavior change from tox 3
+    ('foo \\\n    "bar\\\n    baz"', ["foo", "barbaz"]),
+    ('foo \\\n    "bar \\\n    baz"', ["foo", "bar baz"]),
+    ('foo \\\n    \\"bar \\\n    baz"', ["foo", '"bar', 'baz"']),
+    ("foo \\\n    bar \\\n    baz", ["foo", "bar", "baz"]),
+]
+WINDOWS_PATH_ARGS = [
+    (r"SPECIAL:\foo\bar --quuz='baz atan'", [r"SPECIAL:\foo\bar", "--quuz=baz atan"]),
+    (r"X:\\foo\\bar --quuz='baz atan'", [r"X:\foo\bar", "--quuz=baz atan"]),
+    ("/foo/bar --quuz='baz atan'", ["/foo/bar", "--quuz=baz atan"]),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\""', ["cc", "--arg", 'C:\\Users"']),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\"', ["cc", "--arg", '"C:\\\\Users\\"']),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users"', ["cc", "--arg", "C:\\Users"]),
+    ('cc --arg \\"C:\\\\Users"', ["cc", "--arg", '\\"C:\\\\Users"']),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\ "', ["cc", "--arg", "C:\\Users\\ "]),
+    # ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\ ', ["cc", "--arg", '"C:\\\\Users\\ ']),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\\\"', ["cc", "--arg", "C:\\Users\\"]),
+    ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\\\ "', ["cc", "--arg", "C:\\Users\\ "]),
+    # ('cc --arg "C:\\\\Users\\\\ ', ["cc", "--arg", '"C:\\\\Users\\\\ ']),
+    (
+        r'cc --arg C:\\Users\\ --arg2 "SPECIAL:\Temp\f o o" --arg3="\\FOO\share\Path name" --arg4 SPECIAL:\Temp\ '[:-1],
+        [
+            "cc",
+            "--arg",
+            "C:\\Users\\",
+            "--arg2",
+            "SPECIAL:\\Temp\\f o o",
+            "--arg3=\\FOO\\share\\Path name",
+            "--arg4",
+            "SPECIAL:\\Temp\\",
+        ],
+    ),
+]
+WACKY_SLASH_ARGS = [
+    ("\\\\\\", ["\\\\\\"]),
+    (" \\'\\'\\ '", [" \\'\\'\\ '"]),
+    ("\\'\\'\\ ", ["'' "]),
+    ("\\'\\ \\\\", ["' \\"]),
+    ("\\'\\ ", ["' "]),
+    ('''"\\'\\"''', ['"\\\'\\"']),
+    ("'\\' \\\\", ["\\", "\\"]),
+    ('"\\\\" \\\\', ["\\", "\\"]),
+]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(params=["win32", "linux2"])
+def sys_platform(request: SubRequest, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> str:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "platform", request.param)
+    return str(request.param)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("value", "expected"),
+    [
+        *SIMPLE_ARGS,
+        *NEWLINE_ARGS,
+        *WINDOWS_PATH_ARGS,
+        *WACKY_SLASH_ARGS,
+    ],
+)
+def test_shlex_platform_specific(sys_platform: str, value: str, expected: list[str]) -> None:
+    if sys_platform != "win32" and value.startswith("SPECIAL:"):
+        # on non-windows platform, backslash is always an escape, not path separator
+        expected = [exp.replace("\\", "") for exp in expected]
+    result = StrConvert().to_command(value).args
+    assert result == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("value", "expected"),
+    [
+        *SIMPLE_ARGS,
+        *INI_CONFIG_NEWLINE_ARGS,
+        *WINDOWS_PATH_ARGS,
+        #        *WACKY_SLASH_ARGS,
+    ],
+)
+def test_shlex_platform_specific_ini(
+    tox_project: ToxProjectCreator,
+    sys_platform: str,
+    value: str,
+    expected: list[str],
+) -> None:
+    if sys_platform != "win32" and value.startswith("SPECIAL:"):
+        # on non-windows platform, backslash is always an escape, not path separator
+        expected = [exp.replace("\\", "") for exp in expected]
+    project = tox_project(
+        {
+            "tox.ini": dedent(
+                """
+                [testenv]
+                commands =
+                    %s""",
+            )
+            % value,
+        },
+    )
+    outcome = project.run("c")
+    outcome.assert_success()
+    env_config = outcome.env_conf("py")
+    result = env_config["commands"]
+    assert result == [Command(args=expected)]