From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:36:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Support filenames with spaces in their names (for non-Mac ftp servers).
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~654
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aeeda5b276e26eafa8c1e8fa8af08c0af7d7f34c;p=python

Support filenames with spaces in their names (for non-Mac ftp servers).

This patch must hold the world record for living in my inbox:

  From: John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
  Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:11 -0400

He provided a fix for the version that comes with Python 1.3:
ftpmirror.py revision 1.1...  And it was still relevant!
---

diff --git a/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py b/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py
index 123f479956..d546f33a43 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py
+++ b/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ def mirrorsubdir(f, localdir):
 				    print 'Skipping symbolic link %s -> %s' % \
 						  (words[-3], words[-1])
 				continue
-			filename = words[-1]
-			infostuff = words[-5:-1]
+			filename = string.join(words[8:])
+			infostuff = words[5:]
 			mode = words[0]
 		skip = 0
 		for pat in skippats: