Windows commands

[gloomer]

Hey guys, i'm back.

 
import os
os.system("mkdir c:\test")
 
 

Why doesn't this work? It should work. But it doesn't. How can I use commands in windows through the os.system module.

This is a module right? Or a library. I don't know.

[gloomer]

Ok this is officially messed up.

My python .py script is in the My Documents folder.

I execute it, and oh no, it does not create the folder "test" in C:\

It creates the folder "est" in My Documents.

How does it make "est" out of test!!!!??

I did not miss spell it. Seriously. What i'm I doing wrong?

[theJade]

\ is escaping the next character t so \t is replaced with a tab character. The command you're really sending it is 'mkdir c: <tab> est'. The chacter for '\' is actually '\\' so try the following.

import os
os.system("mkdir c:\\test")

[gloomer]

Ahhhh. Now I get it. Thanks a ton.

[ghostdog74]

Hey guys, i'm back.

 
import os
os.system("mkdir c:\test")
 
 

Why doesn't this work? It should work. But it doesn't. How can I use commands in windows through the os.system module.

This is a module right? Or a library. I don't know.

An advice, try not to use the system's mkdir to do this particular task of making a directory. The os module comes with the mkdir() method for this purpose

import os
yourdir = os.path.join("c:\\","test")
os.mkdir(yourdir)
 

this will make your code more independent of the platform you run your script.