pylint cannot handle path with spaces

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Originally reported by: Xi Shen (BitBucket: davidshen84, GitHub: @davidshen84?)

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My project on my system locates at

/some/path/with/ /space/my/project

If I ran

pylint /some/path/with/ /space/my/project

I got ImportError.

But if I ran

pylint my/project

It works well.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/445

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Original comment by BitBucket: moxian, GitHub: @moxian?:

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What about using quotes?

#!bash
pylint '/some/path/with/ /space/my/project' 

Works fine for me. If you don't enclose the path in quotes, you are effectively passing two "files" for pylint to inspect - first being "/some/path/with/" and the second being "/space/my/project".

And it's not a problem with pylint, but a common command-line behaviour.

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Original comment by Xi Shen (BitBucket: davidshen84, GitHub: @davidshen84?):

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Ah, I see the problem. I notice this issue when I was using Emacs. I think
it is the pylint tool in Emacs did not quote the path.

Do you guys also maintain the pylint Emacs tool? Or I should find someone
else?

Thx,
D.

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Original comment by Claudiu Popa (BitBucket: PCManticore, GitHub: @PCManticore):

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Xi Shen, if you mean pylint.el ( https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/src/989b09c516024376cd2aea29919cd4c419e0a393/elisp/pylint.el?at=default ), then yes, we are maintaining it as well. Although I don't use Emacs, nor do I know lisp. :-) If you think there's a problem with the quoting of the paths in it, could you propose a pull request or a patch?

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Original comment by Xi Shen (BitBucket: davidshen84, GitHub: @davidshen84?):

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Hi Claudiu,

I just made a pull request, #214. Please check. If accepted, please also
publish the new version to Emacs package repository.

Thanks,
David

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Original comment by Claudiu Popa (BitBucket: PCManticore, GitHub: @PCManticore):

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Thank you! I've merged your patch.