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Spaces in input filenames/paths cause cryptic failures #447

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peterjc opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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Spaces in input filenames/paths cause cryptic failures #447

peterjc opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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bug something isn't working how it should enhancement something we'd like pyani to do that it doesn't already VERSION_3 issues relating to version 0.3.x of pyani

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peterjc commented Jan 21, 2025

See e.g. #445. The underlying tools like nucmer and makeblastdb have problems with spaces in filenames/paths, meaning working around this is non-trivial.

Instead it would be better if pyANI aborted immediately with such inputs with a clear and actionable error message.
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