"hyou" <hyo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I'm trying to write a script that simply execute a command line like:
C:\...(path)..\Devenv solution /build "Debug|Win32"
However, in Python the "|" symbol is reserved thus I just can't make the
command line above working once I added the "|" sign in it.
How can I put the "original" vertical bar in a string?
Without an example of the code you are using, my guess is you are using
os.system to execute a command on Windows. The Windows shell (cmd.exe) uses
veritical bar for the pipe command, which sends output from one program into
the input of another. The caret(^) is used in the Windows to escape special
characters. Example:
import os
os.system('echo Hello|World')
'World' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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os.system('echo Hello^|World')
Hello|World
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-Mark
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