From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:55:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #813200: Quote executable path on Windows. Fixes #811082.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1385
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d4210bc7182c44db6a57d10e1769331b584311e7;p=python

Patch #813200: Quote executable path on Windows. Fixes #811082.
Backported to 2.3.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
index d88d50f617..d014ee83ac 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
@@ -293,8 +293,16 @@ class test__mkstemp_inner(TC):
         tester = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(me)),
                               "tf_inherit_check.py")
 
-        retval = os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, sys.executable,
-                           sys.executable, tester, v, fd)
+        # On Windows a spawn* /path/ with embedded spaces shouldn't be quoted,
+        # but an arg with embedded spaces should be decorated with double
+        # quotes on each end
+        if sys.platform in ('win32'):
+            decorated = '"%s"' % sys.executable
+            tester = '"%s"' % tester
+        else:
+            decorated = sys.executable
+
+        retval = os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, sys.executable, decorated, tester, v, fd)
         self.failIf(retval < 0,
                     "child process caught fatal signal %d" % -retval)
         self.failIf(retval > 0, "child process reports failure")