Re: passing a variable to an external program

2007-01-11 Thread Rich
Thank you, that did it. I don't know why I didn't think to escape the \ with \\. On Jan 11, 2:18 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-11, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to run an external program using os.system() but I want to > > include a variable in the middl

Re: passing a variable to an external program

2007-01-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-01-11, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to run an external program using os.system() but I want to > include a variable in the middle of the command line. > > An example of the type of thing I want to be able to do: > pathname = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) > os.system('cscript /nol

passing a variable to an external program

2007-01-11 Thread Rich
I want to run an external program using os.system() but I want to include a variable in the middle of the command line. An example of the type of thing I want to be able to do: pathname = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) os.system('cscript /nologo ' + pathname + '\test.vbs') When I run this, everythi