From 74fe9f307de7557282ed2b01268272efef45a910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:13:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are
 spaces or other special characters in the file path.

---
 Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py | 3 ++-
 Misc/NEWS                | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 9528c9acaa0..c4f14efc27f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import types
+import pipes
 import sys
 import codecs
 import tempfile
@@ -458,7 +459,7 @@ class IOBinding:
         else: #no printing for this platform
             printPlatform = False
         if printPlatform:  #we can try to print for this platform
-            command = command % filename
+            command = command % pipes.quote(filename)
             pipe = os.popen(command, "r")
             # things can get ugly on NT if there is no printer available.
             output = pipe.read().strip()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 26ec822874b..a88c8883362 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
+  special characters in the file path.
+
 - Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
   when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]').  Patch by Matthew Barnett.