[Zope] windows python differences

[garry saddington]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:01 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> garry saddington wrote:
> > This code on linux works without a problem
> > 
> > ispell = os.popen("echo " + word +
> > | /opt/scholarpack/ancillary/ispell/bin/ispell -a")
> > ispell.readline
> > sentence = ispell.readline()
> 
> 
> What if the word is like `rm -rf /`
It is impossible for this to happen because of other controls in place.

>   for example?
> Doing something like that above is completely
> creazy :( There are actually 3 different popen()
> variants - 2 of them give you stdin too so you better
> use this to write the "word" to ispells stdin.
> Don't use echo or something like this!
> ...
> > 
> > however on windows it throws a string index out of range at the
> > sentence[0] constructs.
> > 
> > the popen command on windows is:
> > ispell=os.popen("echo" +word+ "\scholarpack\ancillary\ispell\bin\ispell
> > -a")
> > 
> > Anyone know what the difference is on the two platforms?
> 
> As Andreas already said (and you can easily see by
> comparing the strings, can you? ;)
> Python has os.path.join() to construct paths
> for the actual platform.
> (And since this is a 3rd party tool anyway, you
> might want to make it configurable - of course not
> via ZMI)
I am not bothered about the paths, that is not the question. Both
commands work in their respective environments. It is the sequence[0]
that throws the error so I am looking at differences in the way the
results are returned from ispell.readline()
regards
Garry