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Redundant quotes in subprocess.TimeoutExpired message #152558

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Bug description:

While looking into #151486, I noticed a similar issue in subprocess.TimeoutExpired.__str__.

subprocess.TimeoutExpired.__str__ manually wraps cmd in single quotes while formatting the exception message.
This produces confusing output when cmd is a list, because the list representation already contains quotes around its string elements.

import subprocess
import sys

cmd = [sys.executable, "-c", "import time; time.sleep(10)"]
subprocess.run(cmd, timeout=0.01)

Current output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command '['...python...', '-c', 'import time; time.sleep(10)']' timed out after 0.01 seconds

Expected output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
subprocess.TimeoutExpired: Command ['...python...', '-c', 'import time; time.sleep(10)'] timed out after 0.01 seconds

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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