runfile with path containing apostrophes (quotes) will not work

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From mt.bo...@hotmail.com on 2015-02-04T15:53:30Z

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. When running a file in the spyder python console, it calls runfile('file location') (if I run from the editor-ie, press F5). The problem with this is if the file address contains a folder with an apostrophe in it, it thinks the string has ended there when there is in fact more of the address.

For example:

runfile('C:/Users/username/John's Files/Python/Scripts')

This will attempt to find a file in a folder C:/Users/username/John, which may or may necessarily exist, and regardless the file I wish to execute obviously isn't located there.

I can easily correct this myself by calling the file myself and using double quotes as opposed to single quotes. However, I prefer to run from the editor by pressing F5, and its a bit concerning to me that it defaults to using single quotes when F5 is pressed. I'd rather not have to change all my folder names just so that spyder can run files contained in them.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect the file to run, and instead I get an invalid syntax error on line 1 of the console What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? spyder 2.3.1 on python 3.4 on windows 8.1

Please provide any additional information below

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Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=2158

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2015-02-04T14:12:07Z

Thanks for reporting. I think we need to either:

1. Escape apostrophes
2. Change to use double apostrophes (") in runfile

Labels: Cat-Editor MS-v2.3.4

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From mt.bo...@hotmail.com on 2015-02-04T20:56:30Z

I think what bothered me most was that the error message and debugging didn't help me pinpoint the issue whatsoever. If it had given me a message like "error: file location could not be found" instead pf just "invalid syntax" I wouldn't have spent so much time trying to figure out what was wrong. I appreciate your timely response and concern.

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2015-02-05T07:40:06Z

Sorry for the inconvenience. We didn't expect this corner case, so we didn't take any counter measures about it.

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From ZFreeman...@gmail.com on 2015-02-05T19:34:53Z

Correct me if i'm wrong, but solving the problem with solution 2 may not work, in that the double apostrophe character can also be used in filepaths.

[jordanlui]

Hi there - believe this same issue is still happening for me. I'm a bit new here - let me know if there is some detail I should supply.

Here is what I see in Console:
runfile('D:/Jordan/'s Files/Documents/Dropbox/Coding/Machine Learning/PythonAccuracyTest.py', wdir='D:/Jordan/'s Files/Documents/Dropbox/Coding/Machine Learning')
File "", line 1
runfile('D:/Jordan/'s Files/Documents/Dropbox/Coding/Machine Learning/PythonAccuracyTest.py', wdir='D:/Jordan/'s Files/Documents/Dropbox/Coding/Machine Learning')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Other console Info:
Python 2.7.12 |Anaconda 4.1.1 (64-bit)| (default, Jun 29 2016, 11:07:13) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]

[ccordoba12]

@jordanlui, please open a new issue about it, and don't forget to mention your Spyder version. Thanks :-)