Re: hot-backup.py

Hi,
Looks like you're right - if I replace that line (line 97 of
hot-backup.py) with

infile, outfile, errfile = os.popen3([svnlook,"youngest",repo_dir])

then it seems to work with either whitespace or quotes.
gav.

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 05:53 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Gavin Band]
> > If the name contains double quotes, neither version seems to work.
> > I'm afraid I don't know a way around this - is there a simple way to
> > turn a filename into a fully-escaped version?
>
> In perl you'd execute the command using a list instead of a string -
> that way no word splitting is done, either by perl or by a shell. I
> would assume python has a similar facility, to run fork+exec / spawn
> directly rather than through system() or popen() ... right?

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