Escaping whitespace and parenthesis in filenames

[jehoshua]

I need to write a small script that creates 'ffmpeg' code and therefore need to escape whitespaces and parenthesis in the filenames.

Have looked at a few ways to do this and keep getting errors. Here is what I have tried

https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex....hlex.quote

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/shellescape

This doesn't quite do what I wanted:

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#!/usr/bin/python3   import re import glob, os   for file in glob.glob("chunk*.txt"):     print(re.escape(file))

Where the filename is chunk-the quick brown (fox) jumped.txt the output is

Output:
chunk\-the\ quick\ brown\ \(fox\)\ jumped\.txt

Where the filename is chunk-182.txt the output is

Output:
chunk\-182\.txt

I don't need the dashes or periods escaped, only whitespace, parenthesis and square brackets.

[Gribouillis]

Use

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import re _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)   # file = my_escape(file)

[jehoshua]

Use .....

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

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#!/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)