[Python-Dev] Leading whitespace in Mac IDE script name (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 5 05:54:36 CEST 2004

Jack Jansen wrote:

On 4 Jul 2004, at 21:12, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: There is a long-outstanding bug report about a bunch of file names in the MAC/IDE scripts directory: 764447. Supposedly this was going to be dealt with after 2.3 became final... I expect that any fix for this report would also fix your problem with the leading white space.

The thing is: we think we're going to get rid of the IDE for 2.4, but that will only happen if the replacement is written in time.

Looking at what Just wrote on the bug report, how hard would it be to add a small preprocessing step to the code which reads these filenames?

The suggestion I made on Sourceforge was to prepend and append single underscores to all of the filenames, then have a preprocessing step to remove those before passing the filename lists to the existing code.

E.g " problematic menu item." ==> "_ problematic menu item._"

Seemed like it might be easier than a wholesale rewrite of the menu generation mechanism. But then, I don't know how this code works, so I'm just guessing here :)

Regards, Nick.

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