is perl better?

[Dave Brueck]

jon wrote:
> Ok, so here's the deal.
>
> some idoit wrote a perl script that executes a java program using the system
> command.
>
> the operating system was windows
>
> I decided to port the evil perl to lovely python.
>
> All seemed fine, except when I run I find that the character string is too
> long?
>
> (a very long class path is parsed to the java executable)
>
> the identical command can be run by perls system call.
>
> why does perl work and not python?

Don't worry - it was just a simple typo in your code on line 7.

HTH,
Dave