[Tutor] string conversion according to the terminal

[Evert Rol]

>>>>> a = "my file number"
>>>>> a.replace(' ', '\\ ')
>> 'my\\ file\\ number'
> 
> What if a has more than 1 space between words? Then I think this would
> be a safer way.
> 
>>>> print "\\ ".join("my  file  number".split())
> my\ file\ number

If those spaces are in the actual filename, you'll want to keep them, hence you'll need to escape those extra spaces as well.