Python scp copy file with spaces in filename

Question

I\'m trying to copy files in local network with scp. It\'s working well with filenames without spaces, but it crash with. I\'ve tried to replace \" \" with \"\\ \" as this exemp

Answer 1

Use subprocess module and/or shlex.split():

import subprocess
subprocess.call(['scp', file_pc, file_pi])

and you don't need to worry about escaping or quoting anything