🔒 path being repeated

[silver heron]

I am coding a journal where the user can open and create journals. However, when the user enters their desired path, the program is unable to find the path because the entire path is being added to the start of the filename. How do i fix this?

 # loading an already existing journal (command o)
def open_journal(args):
    global current_profile

    if not args:
        print("ERROR: No file path provided.")
        return

    try:
        # convert input into path object 
        file_path = Path(args[0]).resolve()

        if not file_path.exists() or file_path.suffix.lower() != ".dsu":
            print(f"ERROR: Invalid or missing DSU file at {file_path}.")
            return

        current_profile = Profile()
        try:
            current_profile.load_profile(str(file_path))
            print(f"Loaded journal: {current_profile.username}")
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"ERROR: Could not load journal. {e}")

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"ERROR: Could not process file path. {e}") ```

here is the output: Entering admin mode. Type commands directly.
O C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\journal.dsu
ERROR: Invalid or missing DSU file at C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\UsersuserOneDriveDesktoptesting1journal.dsu.

[atomic shore]

@silver heron

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[robust heron]

What do you see if you do print(repr(args[0]))?

[silver heron]

under this line like this?: ```py
try:
# convert input into path object
file_path = Path(args[0]).resolve()
print(repr(args[0]))

[robust heron]

sure, there will do

[silver heron]

O C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\journal.dsu
'C:UsersuserOneDriveDesktopproject2journal.dsu'
ERROR: Invalid or missing DSU file at C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\UsersuserOneDriveDesktoptesting1journal.dsu.

to be honest, I'm not too sure if this part of the code is the issue, but that's where it's raising errors, but I could be parsing it wrong?

[robust heron]

It looks like all the slashes vanished from your path by the time it made its way to args, so yeah, some sort of parsing issue.

[silver heron]

im not familiar with shlex, but I was told that that might be the issue, is there a better way to parse the command, the path, and the filename together?

[robust heron]

!e posix=False seems to help:

import shlex
print(shlex.split(r"O C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\journal.dsu"))
print(shlex.split(r"O C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Desktop\testing1\journal.dsu", posix=False))

[atomic shore]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | ['O', 'C:UsersuserOneDriveDesktoptesting1journal.dsu']
002 | ['O', 'C:\\Users\\user\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\testing1\\journal.dsu']

[silver heron]

holy crap, that fixed everything, thank you so so much 😭😭 ive asked so many people about this, and this has been the only fix that has worked, thank you so much. i hope you get everything you want in life and more

[atomic shore]

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