I wrote a script to process some files using another program. One thing I noticed was that both os.listdir() and os.path.walk() will return unescaped file names (ie: "My File With Spaces & Stuff" instead of "My\ File\ With\ Spaces\ \&\ Stuff"). I haven't had much success finding a module or recipe that escapes file names and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction.
As an aside, the script is using subprocess.call() with the "shell=True" parameter. There isn't really a reason for doing it this way (was just the fastest way to write it and get a prototype working). I was wondering if Popen objects were sensitive to unescaped names like the shell. I intend to refactor the function to use Popen objects at some point and thought perhaps escaping file names may not be entirely necessary. Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
