On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:30:09 +0000, Rhodri James wrote: > Quote the filenames or escape the spaces: > > C:\Python26\Python.exe C:\echo.py "C:\New Folder\text.txt" > > We've been living with this pain ever since windowed GUIs encouraged users > to put spaces in their file names (Apple, I'm looking at you!). > Fundamentally, if people want the pretty they have to live with the > consequences.
We've been living with much worse ever since Unix allowed users to put not only spaces but even newlines in their filenames. At least, those of us who prefer "works" over "sort of works most of the time" have. Then Python 3 decides to pretend that argv and environ and stdin contain text rather than bytes, thereby ensuring that Python 2 will outlive Python 3. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
