commit 407798595dab4698a86eac4db529cd94b586331e
author Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> Tue Sep 02 10:33:55 2008 +0000
committer Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> Tue Sep 02 10:33:55 2008 +0000
tree fa88cbf2a2546cf5b16a3ab509ae0d147bae51a2
parent 54bd41d81b23eb5d7f7a5f71fa2ceec28fb60296

Add quotes around the file name to avoid issues with spaces.

Closes #3719.

Ported to 3.0 from r66145.

Lib/platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 27ea1b4..56ab759 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@
         return default
     target = _follow_symlinks(target)
     try:
-        f = os.popen('file %s 2> /dev/null' % target)
+        f = os.popen('file "%s" 2> /dev/null' % target)
     except (AttributeError,os.error):
         return default
     output = f.read().strip()