Bug report #12691: Path names with ' and " give problems when saving projects - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #12691

Path names with ' and " give problems when saving projects

Added by Christian Christelis over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	Low
Assignee:	-
Category:	-
Affected QGIS version:	2.8.1	Regression?:	No
Operating System:		Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	20797

Description

When saving a project in a folder containing an ' the following error is given
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An error occured during execution of following code:
sys.path.remove('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings'); sys.path.append('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings/Charlotte's_run')

File "", line 1
    sys.path.remove('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings'); sys.path.append('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings/Charlotte's_run')
                                                                                                                                                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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When the path contains a "
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An error occured during execution of following code:
sys.path.remove('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings'); sys.path.append('/home/christian/Work/InaSAFE/people_in_buildings/Charlotte"s_run')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list

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