Backslashes in Windows paths need to be escaped for popen to run correctly

[rs2]

Else jinja's FileSystemLoader does not find the template and you get a 500 error:
https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/dashboards_bundlers/blob/master/dashboards_bundlers/local_deploy/__init__.py#L213

replace('\\', '\\\\') is hacky, but is sufficient for Windows non-UNC paths.

[jhpedemonte]

Assigning to @nitind to investigate a fix.

[nitind]

@rs which version of Python were you running, and was it from Conda?

[rs2]

3.5, but this behavior on Windows is identical on Python > 2.6, including Anaconda distros.
See https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.sep.

[nitind]

@rs2 Are you able to try the change in #54 ? It should just be a matter of locating the right __init__.py file in your enabled extensions, modifying it to be https://github.com/nitind/dashboards_bundlers/blob/9e3897db3eb2a32b3dc6a1d3789f022682848202/dashboards_bundlers/local_deploy/__init__.py (this includes the CryptGen fix from #53 ), and removing the __pycache__ directory in the same folder.

[rs2]

Let me try