Problem with path manager when using path containing the path list separator

[AlexisMignon]

Description of your problem

Adding a path continaining the ':' character in the path manager, does not work as excpected. This type of path appear for instance when nautilus mounts (using fuse) a remote directory through sftp.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. mkdir ~/foo:bar
2. add this directory with the path manager
3. open a new (i)python console
4. In the console run: import sys; print(sys.path)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect to have:

[
...
/home/<user>/foo:bar,
...
]

I get:

...
/home/<user>/foo,
/home/<user>/bar,
...

This is due to the fact that paths in the path manager are synchorinzed through the PYTHONPATH environment variable which does not support (at least in an obvious way) the use of ":" in the paths. There should be a way to do it though since using the working directory input , correcly adds it to sys.path

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 3.1.2
• Python Version: 3.5
• Operating system: Linux Ubuntu 16.10

[ccordoba12]

If you want to send us a pull request to fix this, that'd be great.

Else we don't have time to work on this, sorry.

[AlexisMignon]

I'm not sure how to do it, the only thing I can propose is at least to warn (through a dialogue ?) users that such paths won't be handled correctly.

[ccordoba12]

That's fine too ;-)