Spaces in path name
Bryan Olson
fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Fri Mar 14 04:18:51 EDT 2008
David S wrote:
> I get
>
> ERROR: ""C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin\ant"" does not exist
>
> If I cut the path statement here and paste it next to a windows XP command
> prompt ant is invoked.
>
> The python code here is
> if not os.path.isfile(ANT_CMD):
> error('"%s" does not exist' % ANT_CMD)
There you don't want the quotes within the string. On my MS-Win box:
>>> import os
>>> os.path.isfile(r'C:\Program Files\Windows NT\dialer.exe')
True
>>> print os.path.isfile(r'"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\dialer.exe"')
False
--
--Bryan
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