<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Alexander Belchenko <<a href="mailto:bialix@ukr.net">bialix@ukr.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In [1]: import shlex In [2]: shlex.split(r'foo C:/bar/spam') Out[2]: ['foo', 'C:/bar/spam'] In [3]: shlex.split(r'foo C:\bar\spam') Out[3]: ['foo', 'C:barspam'] This affects some plugins, but more important: it affects `bzr diff --using xxx` E.g. bzr diff --using "C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe" does not work, while bzr diff --using "C:/Program Files/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe" does actually work. </blockquote><div> Yes. Some parts of bzr are more Win-friendly than others. This drove me crazy at first. Eventually I ended up escaping just about everything. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Instead of shlex.split should be used Win32 API CommandLineToArgvW() function (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776391%28VS.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776391(VS.85).aspx</a>) This function is already using in win32utils:get_unicode_argv() function. There is special function in commands.py def shlex_split_unicode(unsplit): import shlex return [u.decode('utf-8') for u in shlex.split(unsplit.encode('utf-8'))] So I think it should be platform dependent and use right method on win32. Right? Dear plugin writers! Please use the function shlex_split_unicode in your plugins and never shlex.split directly. So once someone will fix its behavior re backslashes your plugin will work much better on Windows. Thanks.</blockquote><div> It would be helpful to also add this advice to the Portability Tips in HACKING.txt. -M </div></div>