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1620515757 I_kwDOBm6k_c5glxut 2039 Subtle bug with `--load-extension` and `--static` flags with absolute Windows paths with`C:\` 15178711 open 0     0 2023-03-12T21:18:52Z 2023-03-12T21:18:52Z   CONTRIBUTOR  

From the Datasette discord: A user tried running the following command on windows:

datasette --load-extension="C:\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll" This failed with "The specified module could not be found", because the entrypoint option introduced in #1789 splits the input differently. Instead of loading the extension found at "C:\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll", it instead tried to load the extension at "C" with entrypoint `"\spatialite\mod_spatialite-5.0.1-win-x86\mod_spatialite.dll".

This is hard because most absolute windows paths have a colon in them, like C:\foo.txt or D:\bar.txt. I'd image the --static flag is also vulnerable to this type of bug.

The "solution" is to use a relative path instead, but that doesn't feel that great.

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