[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2715: ValueError in mythburn.py due to improper parsing of "mount" command output

Jim Paris jim at jtan.com
Wed Nov 22 08:18:33 UTC 2006


>  The error was produced when processing the last line.  Note that the name
>  of the last mount point is "/media/MythTV BurnDVD" ''which includes a
>  space''.
...
>  The real fix will be to change the way that mount points are fetched or
>  parsed.  Parsing the output of "mount" may be brittle and sensitive to the
>  version of mount.  I don't readily see a way to iterate through mount
>  points in Python, so we may just need to fix the parsing.

Consider parsing /proc/mounts.  Spaces and other special chars appear
to be replaced by escape codes there.

-jim


More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list