filename variables

[cyborg4 at walla.co.il]

If in  Windows XP I use:

openstring= "test.py  >foo.txt"
os.system(openstring)

it works.


But if I use:

file1='foo.txt'
openstring= "test.py  >"+file1

It gives an IOError about no such file or directory as
\\mydidr\\foo.txt

What does it mean ?