On 08 August 2000, Rene Liebscher said:
It is not as easy as you may think, I just spotted a potential problem before it could arise. If I would write ...append(",,%s," % filename) and filename would contain a blank ("/a b/file") then spawn would quote it as whole ",,/a b/file,". And this is probably wrong. So we should insert file names as single words in the list.
OK, you win. I think this situation sucks because of 1) MS-DOS' poorly-thought-out command-line model, which (as near as I can tell) has continued under Windows, and 2) Borland's abuse of Microsoft's fuzzy thinking. So your code makes the best of a bad situation. Oh well.
(Don't say blanks in file names are not allowed in python module names, THIS is a generic compiler class which could also be used for other purposes.)
Oh good, finally someone other than me is preaching this sermon -- thanks! ;-)
Greg