From: Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:32:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add quotes around the file name to avoid issues with spaces.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6rc1~78
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d15fad7a89d12afb8e0602c975909237865650c8;p=python

Add quotes around the file name to avoid issues with spaces.

Closes #3719.
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diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 73b6fdb676..cc0431bc56 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ def _syscmd_file(target,default=''):
         return default
     target = _follow_symlinks(target)
     try:
-        f = os.popen('file %s 2> /dev/null' % target)
+        f = os.popen('file "%s" 2> /dev/null' % target)
     except (AttributeError,os.error):
         return default
     output = string.strip(f.read())