New submission from Gauchj <pythonb...@ga.uchj.de>:
_stringify escapes special characters so they can be processed by tcl/tk. To
that end, two different escaping techniques are implemented: put a backslash in
front of every special character or put the entire string in curly braces.
However, a string like the following one:
'"C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe" "afile.txt"'
will be incorrectly escaped to
'"C:\\\\Windows\\\\System32\\\\notepad.exe"\\ "afile.txt"'
Tcl/TK will interpret this as a quoted string, but with a backslash after it
(the one escaping the space between the quoted strings), throwing this
exception:
TclError('list element in quotes followed by "\\" instead of space',)
The attached patch escapes this to
'{"C:\\\\Windows\\\\System32\\\\notepad.exe" "afile.txt"}'
I am not 100% sure that this is correct since double backslashes seem to be
displayed now.
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components: Tkinter
files: 0001-improve-escaping-of-quoted-strings.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 320508
nosy: gauchj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: _stringify handles quoted strings incorrectly
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8
Added file:
https://bugs.python.org/file47654/0001-improve-escaping-of-quoted-strings.patch
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