Hi, You have to specify fromLocalFile() in QUrl():
DesktopServices().openUrl(QUrl.fromLocalFile("/home/piotr/test2/lol bar/photo_4900_8ea80c_huge.jpg")) Bye! 2009/1/26 piotr maliński <riklau...@gmail.com>: > > > 2009/1/26 David Boddie <da...@boddie.org.uk> >> >> On Sun Jan 25 22:17:46 GMT 2009, piotr malinski wrote: >> >> > Here is an example script: >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > from PyQt4.QtCore import * >> > from PyQt4.QtGui import * >> > >> > d = QDesktopServices() >> > >> > x = '/home/piotr/test2/lol bar/photo_4900_8ea80c_huge.jpg' >> > print QUrl(x).isValid() >> > d.openUrl(QUrl(x)) >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > The problem is it won't work if there is a space in the path - "lol >> > bar", for spaceless paths it works (also for example on windows it >> > needs paths with slashes not backslashes...). How can I make the path >> > valid for QDesktopServices? (the QUrl itself is valid) >> >> Perhaps try encoding the URL first: >> >> >> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qurl.html#toEncoded >> >> This may be related to a bug that was apparently fixed in Qt 4.4.0: >> >> >> http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=194046 >> >> You don't say which version of Qt you are using. If it's later than Qt >> 4.4.0, >> it would be good if you could report this as a bug using the Task Tracker. >> >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com >> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt > > > PyQt 4.4.4-r1, Qt 4.4.2, and using: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > from PyQt4.QtCore import * > from PyQt4.QtGui import * > > d = QDesktopServices() > > x = '/home/piotr/test2/lol bar/photo_4900_8ea80c_huge.jpg' > x = unicode(QUrl(x).toEncoded() > print x > print QUrl(x).isValid() > d.openUrl(QUrl(x)) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Doesn't help. So is it a Qt bug? > > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt > _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt