Escaping whitespace and parenthesis in filenames

[jehoshua]

Use .....

Thanks, that works just fine on whitespaces, left and right parenthesis and left and right square brackets.

#!/usr/bin/python3

import re
import glob, os

os.chdir("/home/somepath")

_to_esc = re.compile(r'\s|[]()[]')

def _esc_char(match):
    return '\\' + match.group(0)
 
def my_escape(name):
    return _to_esc.sub(_esc_char, name)
 
for file in glob.glob("chunk*.txt"):
    file = my_escape(file)
    print(file)