I have a a PurePath object like so:

    path = PurePath('/home/my awesome user/file.txt')

I'm SSHing into a server and I want to remove the file. So I have to do this: 

    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {shlex.quote(str(path))}')
    
Which is really long and ugly. (I might have been able to remove the str from there if #28623 wasn't rejected.)

I wish I could do this: 

    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {path}')
    
But since my path has a space, that would only be possible if PurePath.__str__ were to use shlex.quote, and put quotes around my path (only if it includes a space).

What do you think about that?

This will break any code that pass str(path) to API that doesn't support pathlib.

In your case you can introduce a short alias:

    q = shlex.quote
    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {q(str(path))}')

Or add more convenient helper:

    def q(path):
        return shlex.quote(str(path))

    ssh_client.run(f'/bin/rm {q(path)}')

"This will break any code that pass str(path) to API that doesn't support pathlib."

I don't understand. Can you give a concrete example of code it would break?

open(str(path))

I understand now, you're completely right. This change would break the entire world :)