Backout ad09ce1d393c and replace ''' with """ to make some highlighting happy. I have tried Debian's default emacs and the current CVS version. Default emacs doesn't have highlighting enabled (and being emacs-illiterate I don't know how to enable it) and the CVS emacs' Python highlighting has no problems with ' characters here.

#!/bin/sh

echo 'raise Exception("bit bucket overflow")' > badext.py
abspath=`pwd`/badext.py

echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
echo "gpg =" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "hgext.gpg =" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "badext = $abspath" >> $HGRCPATH

hg -q help help