ImageMagick Issue

[Michael Bentley]

On May 31, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Sick Monkey wrote:

> I ran into another slight problem.  And I attempted to fix it, but  
> have not been able to do so yet.  If a filename does not contain a  
> space, then this method works like a charm.  But if there is a  
> space then the code throws a nasty error.
>
> import os
> import subprocess
> from os import *
> imagefile = "/somedir/images/david.huggins/Photo 1.jpg"
> cmdw = "identify -format %w '"+imagefile+"'"
> cmdh = "identify -format %h '"+imagefile+"'"
> pw = subprocess.Popen(cmdw.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,  
> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
> ph = subprocess.Popen(cmdh.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,  
> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
> w = pw.stdout.read().strip()
> h = ph.stdout.read ().strip()
>
> ------------
> identify: Unable to open file ('/somedir/images/david.huggins/ 
> Photo) [No such file or directory].
> identify: Unable to open file (1.jpg') [No such file or directory].
> identify: Missing an image file name [No such file or directory].
> identify: Unable to open file ('/somedir/images/david.huggins/ 
> Photo) [No such file or directory].
> identify: Unable to open file (1.jpg') [No such file or directory].
> identify: Missing an image file name [No such file or directory].
> Traceback (most recent call last):

Try inserting a backslash before the space:

imagefile = imagefile.replace(' ', '\ ')

hth,
Michael

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