os.popen[2-4] does not work with parameters inside quotes, nor do
os.popen. At least on Windows.
import os
cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
os.popen4(cmd)
Results in the following error message:
'c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes' is not recognized as an
internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
// Dalle
5  3723 
"Anders Dalvander" os.popen[2-4] does not work with parameters inside quotes, nor do
os.popen. At least on Windows.
import os
cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
os.popen4(cmd)
Results in the following error message:
Hmm... not for me... I get: import os
cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
os.popen4(cmd)
(<open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"', mode 'w' at
0x008E6620>, <open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter insid
e quotes"', mode 'r' at 0x008EC060>)
Emile van Sebille em***@fenx.com
Anders Dalvander <go****@dalvander.com> wrote: cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
os.popen4(cmd)
'c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes' is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Not surprising. Pick command.COM or cmd.exe.
-D
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Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dm**@dman13.dyndns.org> wrote in message news:<fl************@dman13.dyndns.org>... Not surprising. Pick command.COM or cmd.exe.
*siq* I should have written anycommand.exe instead of command.exe...
"Emile van Sebille" <em***@fenx.com> wrote in message news:<bn*************@ID-11957.news.uni-berlin.de>... Hmm... not for me... I get:
import os
cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
os.popen4(cmd)
(<open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"', mode 'w' at
0x008E6620>, <open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter insid
e quotes"', mode 'r' at 0x008EC060>)
Did you try with having the exe-file in another directory with spaces:
"c:\path with spaces\command.exe"?
What Windows version are you running?
// Dalle
"Anders Dalvander" <go****@dalvander.com> wrote in message
news:d0**************************@posting.google.c om... "Emile van Sebille" <em***@fenx.com> wrote in message
news:<bn*************@ID-11957.news.uni-berlin.de>... Hmm... not for me... I get:
>> import os
>> cmd = '"c:\\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"'
>> os.popen4(cmd)
(<open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter inside quotes"', mode 'w' at
0x008E6620>, <open file '"c:\command.exe" "parameter insid
e quotes"', mode 'r' at 0x008EC060>)
Did you try with having the exe-file in another directory with spaces:
"c:\path with spaces\command.exe"?
This wraps, but here's the result:
Python 2.4a0 (#46, Oct 25 2003, 09:39:59) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import os
cmd = '"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual
Studio\\Common\\Tools\\dfview.ex
e" "parameter inside quotes"' os.popen4(cmd)
(<open file '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\Common\Tools\dfview.exe"
"parameter inside quotes"', mode 'w' at 0x008E4EE0>, <open file '"C:\Program
Fil
es\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\dfview.exe" "parameter inside
quotes"',
mode 'r' at 0x008EC660>)
What Windows version are you running?
This was on winxppro.
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