Robin Buyer wrote:
> I created a small program to test os.system:
>
> import os.path
> os.system("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE")
>
> when i run this from the command line I get an error message:
> 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file.
>
> How do you put spaces into a path name?
The same way you do if you are typing the command directly to the shell - put
it in
quotes. So now there are two sets of quotes - one to tell Python it is a
string, and one
to pass to the shell:
os.system('"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"')
Alternately use subprocess.call() which takes a list of command-line parameters
so it
knows to quote the first arg:
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call([r'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE'])
Also note that if you want to use paths with \ in them in Python strings you
should use a
raw string, otherwise the \ start escape sequences that you don't intend:
os.system(r'"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"')
Kent
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