Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] Patch for mishandled filenames

[Juho S. <juh...@as...>]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Noel O'Boyle wrote:

>Problem:
>
>On Windows, if your user name contains an apostrophe, the use of
>temporary files causes an error, as gnuplot uses apropostrophes (i.e.
>single quotes) to delimit the filename.
>
>gnuplot> plot 'c:\docume~1\noelo'~1\locals~1\temp\tmpcxnwsm' notitle
>                                   ^
>         invalid character
>
>
>Solution:
>
>If you replace the single quotes with double quotes, gnuplot is happy
>with the apostrophe but misinterprets the backslashes as escape
>character sequences.
>
>gnuplot> plot "c:\docume~1\noelo'~1\locals~1\temp\tmpcxnwsm" notitle
>              ^
>         can't read data file "c:docume~1
>oelo'~1locals~1 emp     mpcxnwsm"
>
>....so you need to also replace all of the backslashes with forward
>slashes.

Or you could use raw strings:

r"c:\docume~1\noelo'~1\locals~1\temp\tmpcxnwsm"

So python treats \ in the string just like any other character.


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