Bill Janssen wrote: > I'm actually not passing file names. I'm passing argument strings, > which may contain spaces, quotes, and other things. For instance, > > myprogram --title="That's the game! says Mike "Hammer" Brotsky" --file=... > > "myprogram" is a Python program, and expects to get the whole "--title" > argument as a single element of sys.argv. > > On Unix, I use > > arg = "--title=%s" % pipes.quote(title) > > to achieve that effect. What's the equivalent on Windows? Since > cmd.exe also supports pipelines, I'd sort of expect it to do the right > thing on Windows, too. >
Ah, foolish mortal. The problem with Windows is that, as I said, there is no central command-line parser, so there is no single set of rules. Cmd.exe does not parse the command line. Cmd.exe does not create argc/argv. Cmd.exe just passes the whole command line as a string. For C programs, the C run-time library will crack that string into argc/argv. Python on Windows has its own parser. If you are creating a list of arguments to pass AS A LIST, then no quoting is necessary. If you intend to mash them together into a single string, then I'm afraid you will need to experiment. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
