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

[Viktor Engelmann]

Am 31.08.2016 um 10:28 schrieb Viktor Engelmann:
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> Am 31.08.2016 um 02:02 schrieb Kyle Altendorf:
>> On August 30, 2016 7:44:14 PM EDT, Kyle Altendorf <sda at fstab.net> wrote:
>>> On August 30, 2016 4:28:25 PM EDT, Larry Martell
>>> <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Try printing sys.executable and os.getcwd() and see if they show any
>>> differences that might shed some light.  I'm on my phone so hopefully I
>>> am remembering those correctly.
>> Or, is the file being accessed or created by the calling C++ application?  Depending on how each opens it there could be a conflict of sorts there.
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> Interesting idea - if the C++ code creates the file and starts python
> without closing the file, that might explain the behavior... although
> the python script SHOULD throw an exception or something instead of
> "loading" an "empty file" - but such "improvements" wouldn't surprise
> me in python...
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> Viktor 

Although... then it should also not work with filenames without spaces...

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