subprocess chokes on spaces in path

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:32:33 -0300, BartlebyScrivener  
<bscrivener42 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Using bash on Debian Etch.
>
> If word_doc = sys.argv[1] and it's a file name like My\ Word.doc this
> function reads My and Word as two separate files unless the second
> '%s' is quoted.  Took me a lot of trial and error to discover. Is this
> the most elegant way to do it? I was using popen originally, then saw
> some threads suggesting subprocess cured the spaces in path problem.

Use a list of arguments [antiword, word_doc] and let subprocess handle the  
spaces the right way.


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Gabriel Genellina