On 11/16/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> > Probably the issue here is that I need to be using some Windows API to > invoke Python instead of execv/spawnv, in order to prevent the command > line from being re-parsed. :( > Failing that, using the short name API might be the best workaround, > although technically I believe a short name can have a space in it too! > It's just not as likely to. > I think it cannot contain a space - DOS didn't allow spaces in names (dear old DOS :-)
For example I created a file "t t.txt" with notepad and then did a dir /x .... 16/11/2005 16:40 PM 6 TTBC95~1.TXT t t.txt .... And you can see that the filename doesn't contain a space. Mark
