Some times the filenames or directories that contains symbol or space such like ‘[example] {symbol} \simple’, the command may not be execute correctly because the system can not find such a directory or file due to it thought the file or dir is not a complete one but multiple. The we need to escape specific symbols in the filename.
# -*- coding:UTF-8 -*-
def escape(m, n = 0): #define a function
t = list(m) #convert string to list
ngword = ['*', '?', '[', ']', '^', '!', '{', '}', '(', ')', '\''] #escape these symbols
tm = 1
for i in ngword:
if n == len(t):
break
elif t[n] == i:
t.insert(n, "\'\\")
t.insert(n+2, "\'")
n += 3
escape(t,n)
elif tm < len(ngword):
tm += 1
continue
else:
n += 1
escape(t,n)
return ''.join(t)