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

[Noel O'B. <no...@ca...>]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:17 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 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?

I cannot see any problems with the fix and it works for me under
windows. A big thanks on behalf of all people with funny characters in
their name.

Regards,
Noel

> 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.