From 158ec46e54c8d634e570b05fc13795e8036e2f95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Peng <ben.bog@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 17:12:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Better formatting of string #976

---
 src/sos/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/sos/utils.py b/src/sos/utils.py
index 6bf7726f7..cdd558d02 100644
--- a/src/sos/utils.py
+++ b/src/sos/utils.py
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ def format_par(name, par):
             elif isinstance(val, Sequence) and not isinstance(val, str):
                 return f'--{name} {" ".join(str(x) for x in val)} (as {val.__class__.__name__})'
             elif isinstance(val, str):
-                return f'--{name} {val!r}'
+                return f'--{name} {val if val.isalnum() else repr(val)}'
             else:
                 return f'--{name} {val} (as {val.__class__.__name__})'
     except: