[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This comes up from time to time. The brain damage is all Windows', not > Python's. Here's one thread which seems to suggest a bizarre doubling > of the initial quote of the commandline. > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/89d94656ea393d5b/ef40a65017848671
It can't all be Windows' brain damage, since typing precisely the same command at the prompt (at least with the example I'm using) doesn't require doubling the initial quote of the command line. Or, more precisely, Windows is brain damaged in at least two different places here, and the shell is only one of them... Also it appears the issue may be more the fact that the second argument *also* has quotation marks (regardless of whether it has a space in it or not). It's only then (it seems) that the silly double initial quotation mark is required. Either way, "brain damage" definitely describes it. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list