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

[Michael H. <mh...@al...>]

Noel,

Thanks again for the patch, and the additional information about allowed
characters.

It seems to me that *all* characters can get through if we use
double-quoted strings and simply backslash-quote '"' and '\'.  So I just
added a function in the gp.py module called double_quote_string() that
does just this, and use this method in the definitions of the two
get_base_command_string() methods that return filenames.  These changes
are committed into the main branch of CVS.

This seems to work under Linux.  Would you please check whether they
work under Windows, and whether you can see any other problems with this
solution?

Thanks,
Michael

Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> 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.