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xgettext: process files with spaces and colons in the filename #18

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@armijnhemel

From #16 (comments)

So what about file names that have a space in it, or perhaps have a semicolon? Those are valid file names and xgettext will happily process them and you will get something like this (I just renamed a file and then ran xgettext):

#: fdisk:big.c:234 fdisk:big.c:2942

I am not sure how common file names with semicolons are, but file names with spaces are not uncommon.

As far as I can tell partition() will not properly process this:

>>> _, _, bla = a.partition('#:')
>>> bla.partition(':')
(' fdisk', ':', 'big.c:234 fdisk:big.c:2942')

The only certainty that you have is that the part after the last : should be a number, so perhaps rewriting it to rpartition() would be the cleanest way.

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