os.spawnl problem under windows...

[Alex Martelli]

Max wrote:
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>>>>os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, 'c:\windows\notepad.exe', 'c:\windows\notepad.exe')

As these are plain strings, each \n means a single newline characters.

Double up every backslash or use raw string literals 
r'c:\windows\notepad.exe' in which backslash-escapes aren't expanded.

In most cases you can also use normal / slashes instead of back \ ones,
but I don't recall if os.spawnl is among those 'most cases'.


Alex