/cwd will not change the directory if there are blank spaces in name

I am trying to set the directory where a pymapdl analysis results will be saved using the /cwd command. I have found that if the directory name has spaces, the /cwd will not write the apdl output to that folder.

Example: Directory ‘BOB’ will have the expected results but directory ‘BOB with Spaces’ is empty when I run the .py script below. Run from a directory without spaces, naturally.

from ansys.mapdl.core import launch_mapdl
mapdl = launch_mapdl(verbose_mapdl=True, additional_switches='-smp', override=True , log_apdl='apdl.log', loglevel='ERROR')
import os

dirNames = ['BOB', 'BOB with Spaces'] # run from a directory w/out spaces!
local = os.getcwd()
for d in dirNames:
    setLocal = os.path.join(local,d)
    if not os.path.isdir(setLocal):
        os.mkdir(setLocal)
    print(setLocal)
    #setLocal = "/CWD," + local
    mapdl.cwd(setLocal )

    x = 1
    fx =- 1e6
    numElem = 1000
    
    elemSize = (x*x*x)/numElem**(1/3)
    
    ####
    mapdl.clear()
    mapdl.prep7()
    
    mapdl.mp("EX", 1, 200e9)
    mapdl.mp("PRXY", 1, 0.3)
    
    mapdl.csys(0)
    
    mapdl.blc4(0, 0,x,x, x)
    
    mapdl.et(1, "SOLID186")
    mapdl.type(1)
    mapdl.keyopt(1, 2, 1)
    mapdl.esize(elemSize)
    
    mapdl.vmesh("ALL")
    #mapdl.eplot()
    
    # fixed constraint
    mapdl.nsel("s", "loc", "x", 0)
    mapdl.d("all", "all")
    
    # arbitrary non-uniform load
    mapdl.nsel("s", "loc", "x", x)
    mapdl.f("all", "fx",fx)
    mapdl.allsel()
    mapdl.run("/solu")
    sol_output = mapdl.solve()
    
    #mapdl.post_processing.plot_nodal_displacement(lighting=False, show_edges=True)

[germa89]

Closing this.

[jgd10]

With the merger of #643 this should be fixed.