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Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)

From Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)
Date 2014-01-13 16:14 +0000
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Em 13-01-2014 08:58, Peter Otten escreveu:
> Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> Paulo da Silva wrote:
>>
>>> Em 12-01-2014 20:29, Peter Otten escreveu:
>>>> Paulo da Silva wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> but I have not tried it myself. Also, some bytes may need to be
>>>>>> escaped, either to be understood by the shell, or to address security
>>>>>> concerns:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I am puting the file names between "", the only char that needs
>>>>> to be escaped is the " itself.
>>>>
>>>> What about the escape char?
>>>>
>>> Just this fn=fn.replace('"','\\"')
>>>
>>> So far I didn't find any problem, but the script is still running.
>>
>> To be a bit more explicit:
>>
>>>>> for filename in os.listdir():
>> ...     print(template.replace("<fn>", filename.replace('"', '\\"')))
>> ...
>> ls "\\"; rm whatever; ls \"
> 
> The complete session:
> 
>>>> import os
>>>> template = 'ls "<fn>"'
>>>> with open('\\"; rm whatever; ls \\', "w") as f: pass
> ... 
>>>> for filename in os.listdir():
> ...     print(template.replace("<fn>", filename.replace('"', '\\"')))
> ... 
> ls "\\"; rm whatever; ls \"
> 
> 
> Shell variable substitution is another problem. c.l.py is probably not the 
> best place to get the complete list of possibilities.
I see what you mean.
This is a tedious problem. Don't know if there is a simple solution in
python for this. I have to think about it ...
On a more general and serious application I would not produce a bash
script. I would do all the work in python.

That's not the case, however. This is a few times execution script for a
very special purpose. The only problem was the occurrence of some
Portuguese characters in old filenames encoded in another code than
utf-8. Very few also include the ".

The worst thing that could happen was the bash script to abort. Then it
would be easy to fix it using a simple editor.

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Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 15:36 +0000
  Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 17:23 +0100
    Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 17:51 +0000
      Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 19:50 +0100
        Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 19:41 +0000
          Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-12 21:29 +0100
            Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-12 23:53 +0000
              Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 09:48 +0100
              Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 09:58 +0100
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-13 16:14 +0000
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-13 18:29 +0100
                Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> - 2014-01-13 18:44 +0000
  Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError) Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-12 08:55 -0800

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