Cannot open files whose file names begin with dash `-`
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nukemiko commented
Steps to reproduce
- Prefix the file name with a minus sign or dash
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- Try to open it with
pydub.AudioSegment.from_file(filename)
Expected behavior
File can be opened.
Actual behavior
In [2]: segment = AudioSegment.from_file('-you-can\'t-open-this.flac')
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JSONDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 1
----> 1 segment = AudioSegment.from_file('-you-can\'t-open-this.flac')
File /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pydub/audio_segment.py:728, in AudioSegment.from_file(cls, file, format, codec, parameters, start_second, duration, **kwargs)
726 info = None
727 else:
--> 728 info = mediainfo_json(orig_file, read_ahead_limit=read_ahead_limit)
729 if info:
730 audio_streams = [x for x in info['streams']
731 if x['codec_type'] == 'audio']
File /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pydub/utils.py:279, in mediainfo_json(filepath, read_ahead_limit)
276 output = output.decode("utf-8", 'ignore')
277 stderr = stderr.decode("utf-8", 'ignore')
--> 279 info = json.loads(output)
281 if not info:
282 # If ffprobe didn't give any information, just return it
283 # (for example, because the file doesn't exist)
284 return info
File /usr/lib/python3.11/json/__init__.py:346, in loads(s, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
341 s = s.decode(detect_encoding(s), 'surrogatepass')
343 if (cls is None and object_hook is None and
344 parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
345 parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 346 return _default_decoder.decode(s)
347 if cls is None:
348 cls = JSONDecoder
File /usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py:337, in JSONDecoder.decode(self, s, _w)
332 def decode(self, s, _w=WHITESPACE.match):
333 """Return the Python representation of ``s`` (a ``str`` instance
334 containing a JSON document).
335
336 """
--> 337 obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
338 end = _w(s, end).end()
339 if end != len(s):
File /usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py:355, in JSONDecoder.raw_decode(self, s, idx)
353 obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
354 except StopIteration as err:
--> 355 raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
356 return obj, end
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Your System configuration
- Python version: 3.11.6
- Pydub version: 0.25.1
- ffmpeg or avlib?: ffmpeg
- ffmpeg/avlib version: 2:6.1-3