Neil Benn wrote: >Steve M wrote: > > > >>Well, apparently I fried my brain trying to sort this out. There is a >>typo in my example code in the post but not in my real program. (I know >>it is a no-no when asking help on c.l.py but I simplified some details >> >> >>from the real code in order not to confuse the issues. Probably > > >>backfired by this point.) Below is the post with the error fixed and >>one sentence added (to clarify why the error in my original post really >>was not the problem). Thanks for any advice. >>--- >>I'm trying to invoke a Java command-line program from my Python program >>on Windows XP. I cannot get the paths in one of the arguments to work >>right. >> >>The instructions for the program describe the following for the >>command-line arguments: >> >>java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dsalesforce.config.dir=CONFIG_DIRECTORY >> >>They also give an example: >> >>java -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\config -jar sforcedataloader.jar >> >>If I type the example above at the cmd.exe command line the thing works >>(assuming I have the config file in c:\config). What doesn't work is >>these two lines: >> >>cmd = r'java -jar sforcedataloader.jar >>-Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\config' >>os.system(cmd) >> >><snip> >> >> >> >> >Unless you have fixed your typo in a different place, you have the same >problem as before. There are two issues, you need to escape the >backslash and you have the java properties line in the wrong place. >Instead of: > >cmd = r'java -jar sforcedataloader.jar -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\config' >os.system(cmd) > >use > >cmd = r'java -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\\config -jar sforcedataloader.jar' >os.system(cmd) > >Neil > > > Whoops you are using a raw string - you only need one backslash - the java thing is still the same though
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