[Interest] script invoked with QProcess cannot open files, with spaces in path

[Larry Martell]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Roland Hughes
<roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
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>
> I am invoking a python script with QProcess. I have found that if the
> script tries to open a file that has spaces in the path, no error is
> thrown, but the file always appears to have 0 length. The same script
> with the same file with spaces in the path invoked from the command
> line works fine. Note that this has nothing to do with argument
> passing from the C++ code to the script via QProcess - the file path
> name is hardcoded in the script. If the file has no spaces in its path
> it is opened fine. I have tied escaping the spaces with \ but no joy.
> Anyone know why this would be happening and know a way around this?
> <<
>
> QProcess() as I recall, parses the string and assumes space to mark the end
> of a command and start of the parameter list. Ran into this on Linux as
> well. You need an extra set of quotes (or some other kind of delimiter) in
> the command to stop QProcess() from "helping you out."

No parameters are being passed to QProcess. Its start method is being
called with:

("/usr/bin/python2.7", "myscript.py")

The path of the file being opened is hard coded in the python script.