On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:48 PM, taserian <taser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm adding some line breaks to make your text a little more readable. > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez < > susana.delgad...@utzmg.edu.mx> wrote: > > Hello members: >> >> How can I write a statement to execute the following: >> > > >> C:/Archivos de programa/FWTools2.4.7/bin/ogr2ogr R1G-GEODESIA.shp -where >> "LAYER = 'R1G-GEODESIA'" tapalpa_05_plani_point.dbf >> > > >> I want my uotput to look like this. >> Instead I'm getting this >> > > >> C:/Archivos de programa/FWTools2.4.7/bin/ogr2ogr T21-PUENTES.shp -where >> LAYER=+line tapalpa_05_plani_line.shp >> > > >> In miy code line is a string given by the user: >> >> for line in open("unico.txt", "r").readlines(): >> p = subprocess.Popen(['C:/Archivos de >> programa/FWTools2.4.7/bin/ogr2ogr', line+'.shp', '-where', "LAYER='line'", >> b+'.shp']) >> >> Any suggestions? >> > > Without knowing specifics about what the subprocess.Popen function is > expecting as parameters, I can only speculate, but it seems that the > following *might* work (for extremely generous values of "*might*"): > > for line in open("unico.txt", "r").readlines(): > p = subprocess.Popen(['C:/Archivos de > programa/FWTools2.4.7/bin/ogr2ogr', line+'.shp', '-where', "\"LAYER='" + > line + "'\"", b+'.shp']) > > Details about where the changes are: > "\"LAYER='" + line + "'\"" > Begin corrections (corrections start with a *) Quote to begin the literal: " > An escaped quote (1) so that there's a quote inside the literal: \" > Some of the text that's meant to be unchanging: LAYER= > *Single Quote (2) to be included in the literal (which doesn't need to be escaped): ' > Close Quote: " > Add the content of the variable "line" from the unico.txt file: + line + > *Add another literal, composed of the single quote that closes (2) above, then the closing escaped quote to close (1) : "'\"" > > See if this works, and let us know how it turns out. > > Antonio Rodriguez > End of corrections. Antonio Rodriguez
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