Hi again, 2009/9/1 Alex Fernandez <ely...@gmail.com>: > Uwe Stöhr and I are trying to debug a weird issue with eLyXer that > appears only on Windows, and only on certain machines. In these cases > it appears that eLyXer 0.27 is not able to parse directories with > spaces, while on other similar machines it works perfectly. The > conversion is done from inside LyX, where it does: > elyxer.py --directory $r $i $o > and if the directory $r contains spaces, eLyXer fails to parse the > parameter set correctly. Each directory appears in the command line > enclosed in quotes: > > elyxer.py --directory "D:\programas\LyX 1.6.4\" "Intro.lyx" "Output.html" > but in this case eLyXer will get one parameter less.
More information in case someone is willing to give it a try. Uwe has been kind enough to run the elyxer.py command directly from the DOS shell, and it runs fine: > elyxer.py --directory "D:\programas\LyX 1.6.4\" "Intro.lyx" "Output.html" Parameters ['--directory', 'D:\programas\LyX 1.6.4\', 'Intro.lyx', 'Output.html'] works as expected: However when eLyXer is invoked from within LyX (View -> HTML), then it parses the arguments incorrectly, disregarding the quotes and producing one extra parameter. Parameters ['--directory', 'D:\programas\LyX', '1.6.4\', 'Intro.lyx', 'Output.html'] and therefore eLyXer fails. It only happens on Uwe's machine, on my test machine (running also XP) it is fine. It would appear that the problem is indeed in the way LyX starts eLyXer, and in this part I am completely lost. From reading the source code (configure.py, lyxpreview_tools.py) I realize that there are two ways to start elyxer.py: one is using os.popen, the other (if PyWin is installed) is more convoluted but goes through win32process.CreateProcess. I have installed PyWin but still it works for me; and Uwe doesn't have it (at least on his XP 64bit machine). I have found several Python bugs related to this problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue1714451 http://bugs.python.org/issue1475 But none concretely for the issue. This link however points to Windows as the culprit: http://www.answermysearches.com/python-ospopen-does-not-work-with-parameters-inside-quotes-when-command-is-in-quotes/192/ But it doesn't say why the issue should happen on some machines, and not on others. It is a showstopper to include eLyXer in Uwe's alternate installer, and in fact to use eLyXer on certain machines, so I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Alex Fernández.
